Gemicia vardariana

Gemicia vardariana

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Syn: Scilla vardaria
Bulbs 2130 × 1018 mm, ovoid to subglobose; outer tunic membranaceous, very thin textured, pale brown, sometimes pink-hued; inner scales fleshy, pink-hued. Leaves usually 2, rarely 3, 1119 × 0.81.7 cm, dark green to yellow-green, linear, canaliculate, cucullate at apex. Stem solitary, 49 cm long, erect, stout. Inflorescence a simple, lax 29 flowered raceme, axis erect, brown to light green, sometimes tinged bronze, 37 cm long, . Bracts 12 mm long, lanceolate to ovate, sometimes linear, membranaceous, white to purple-hued, sometimes absent. Pedicels 16 cm long, erect to suberect, sometimes curved downwards, slender. Perigon uniformly pale violet-blue, broadly campanulate to stellate with lobes 1015 × 45 mm, subequal, oblong-lanceolate, united in lower 1/4– 1/5; tube 1.53 × 23 mm, subcampanulate to infundibular, originating from both floral corona and perianth, white at base. Floral corona 2.53.5 × 33.5 mm, conical, pale blue to white, sometimes pale blue at apex only, apex margin very minutely irregularly toothed or entire, formed by the fusion of the filaments. Anthers inserted at the floral corona apex; light to pale yellowish, 24 × 11.5 mm, dorsifixed, introrse; filaments reduced. Ovary 23 × 23 mm, dark blue, subglobose or obovoid, 3-1ocular, ovules 45 per locule; style 11.5 mm long; stigma small, truncate. Capsule 46 × 68 mm, pyriform, 3-lobed, pale greenish. Seeds 1.52 mm broad, 412 in each capsule, ovoid to ellipsoid, with an elaiosome; testa pale yellow, reticulate; elaiosome pale cream yellow, cucullate, adherent to testa, slightly tuberculate.
Endemic