Gagea villosa
Gagea villosa
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Bulbs with brown hard tunics, new bulb forming beside old, usually with a wrinkled skin, usually without recurved thickened roots. Basal leaves 2, linear, to 16 cm x 1-2.5 mm, exceeding inflorescence, D-shaped in section, glabrous or shortly hairy; more leaves, with bulbils in their axils at ground level, often present. Inflorescence subumbellate, 1-10 cm, hairy or glabrous. Cauline leaves opposite or subopposite, lower in robust specimens with a single flower or smaller umbel in its axil, very rarely with bulbils in axils, not exceeding flowers, to 9 mm broad. Flowers 1-15. Perianth segments yellow, narrowly ovate, 7-10 mm at flowering, elongating and curling to 11-18 mm in fruit, blunt, sometimes hairy outside, especially at base. Capsule obcordate or ovoid, emarginate.
1. Perianth segments less than 10 mm; flowers 1-4 var. hermonis
1. Perianth segments more than 10 mm; flowers more than 4, usually c. 8 var. villosa
