Physodia

Manning, John, 2022, New combinations in Drimia Jacq. ex Wild. (Hyacinthaceae: Urgineoideae) and an updated key to the southern African species, Bothalia (a 2) 52 (1), pp. 1-7 : 5

Sect. Physodia

1a. Inflorescence globose-capitate, all pedicels ± 0.5 mm apart and rachis not elongating in fruit; scape glabrous; lower bracts 1.5–4.0 mm long with a spur 1–6 mm long; plants from mesic grasslands along eastern Escarpment......................................................... 39. D. depressa 1b. Inflorescence subcapitate-racemose or congested-racemose, lower pedicels often distant and rachis somewhat elongating in fruit; scape usually longitudinally puberulous; lower bracts 0.5–2.0 mm long with reduced spur up to 1.5 mm long; plants from drier habitats along western and southern coast and interior: 2a. Leaves subterete-filiform, 0.5–1.0 mm wide; pedicels arcuate-suberect in fruit.............. 42. D. minor 2b. Leaves linear to lanceolate, 1–25 mm wide; pedicels spreading-reflexed with tips abruptly erect in fruit: 3a. Pedicels (3.0–)5.0– 6.5 mm long; ovary white with yellow shoulders edged with purple speckles; base of bulb and roots bulbilliferous.............................................. 40. D. montana 3b. Pedicels (8–)15–20(–30) mm long; ovary uniformly white; plants not bubilliferous........41. D. physodes