Bulbous, perennial herbs. Leaves 1-few, filiform, soon caducous. Stem (inflorescence) usually climbing, bright green or glaucous, copiously and intricately branched; branches reflexed-spreading. succulent, green. Bracts minute, spurred. Flowers very numerous, green, yellowish-green or white, diurnal. Perianth segments 6, lobes spreading or reflexed, remaining attached to base of capsule in fruit. Capsule subspherical to conical, loculicidal. Seeds flattened, black, shiny. Worldwide: 1 species in southern and East Africa Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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