Английская Википедия:Cyphia bulbosa
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Cyphia bulbosa, also known by its common name Bulb Baroe, is a species of flowering plant from the genus Cyphia.[1]
Description
This geophyte grows to be up to Шаблон:Convert tall.[2] The leaves are mostly basal and grade into bracts up the stem.[3] The deeply dissected leaves have a palmatisect or palmatifid shape and are paler on the underside.[3][4]
Flowers are present between August and November. They range from white to mauve in colour and are borne in racemes.[3] Each flower is Шаблон:Convert long and is surrounded by a toothed or lobed bract.[3][4] As with other species in the genus, the style has a fluid filled stigmatic cavity rather than free stigma.[4] It has two bearded anthers on the Шаблон:Convert long stamens.[3] The triangular calyx lobes have round interspaces.[4]
The fat, oval-shaped seeds have narrow wings.[2]
Distribution and habitat
This species is endemic to South Africa. It is found on sandy and stony flats and slopes between the Cedarberg Mountains and the Cape Peninsula.[3] It is common in Cape Town.[2]
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