Capitatae, 2018

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 : 4

Sect. Capitatae

1a. Leaf margins thickened and cartilaginous, either papillate/colliculate or scabridulous:

1b. Leaf margins not thickened and cartilaginous, sometimes pubescent or scabridulous:

2a. Bulb scales loose; leaves linear-channelled, 2.0– 2.5 mm wide; pedicels 2–6 mm long; plants from Eastern Cape ........................................................... 37. D. chalumnensis

2b. Bulb scales closely packed; leaves plane, 4–25 mm wide; pedicels 5–10 mm long; plants from Western and Northern Cape:

3a. Leaf blades obtuse; margins colliculate; plants from Western Cape Fold Mtns............. 31. D. ecklonii

3b. Leaf blades acute-apiculate; margins partly or entirely scabridulous on upper surface; plants not from Western Cape Fold Mtns:

4a. Leaf margins simple, densely retrorsely scabridulous along upper surface............. 32. D. marginata

4b. Leaf margins duplex, narrowly colliculate along edge with submarginal band of erect or retrorse trichomes along upper surface........................................ 33. D. pulchromarginata

5a. Leaves usually 2 or more, plane or channelled above, with narrow hyaline margins:

5b. Leaf solitary (rarely two), without a distinct hyaline margin:

6a. Leaves glabrous but minutely scabridulous along margins, at least distally................. 28. D. virens

6b. Leaves pubescent or scabridulous on one or both surfaces:

7a. Leaves in a rosette, (15–)20–30 (–70) × (3–) 5–7(–9) mm, margins with long cilia and softly pubescent on one or both surfaces; tepals not fringed.................................... 29. D. barkerae

7b. Leaves in a loose tuft, 12–26 × 1.0– 1.5 mm, margins glabrous, upper surface recurved-scabridulous; inner tepals fringe..................................................30. D. fimbrimarginata

8a. Leaf glabrous, fleshy and semiterete to terete or clavate:

8b. Leaf plane, ciliolate or pubescent:

9a Dwarf plants, inflorescence 15–30 mm long.................................. 38. D. acarophylla

9b. Taller plants, inflorescence 40–100 mm long:

10a. Aerial portion of leaf 35–70 × 2–6 mm ................................... 34. D. vermiformis

10b. Aerial portion of leaf 15–25(–40) × 5–9 mm ................................. 34.1. D. pinguis

11a. Leaf retrorsely ciliolate along margins only with hairs ± 0.5 mm long................. 35. D. ciliolata

11b. Leaf softly retrorsely pubescent on one or both surfaces and along margins with hairs ± 1.0– 2.5 mm long:

12a. Leaf plicately grooved adaxially, with soft spreading trichomes 2.5 mm long on upper surface only..............................................................35.1. D. hispidoplicata

12b. Leaf not grooved, with scattered retrorse trichomes ± 1 mm long on both surfaces...36. D. trichophylla