Description
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Rhizome short, inconspicuous. Roots clustered. Leaves subdistichous, sessile, grasslike, usually falcate, 10--20(--37) cm × 3--6 mm, glabrous. Scape usually 2 or 3, erect or arching, 10--20 cm. Raceme sometimes few branched and paniculate, several to many flowered; bracts narrowly deltoid to lanceolate, very small. Flowers solitary or paired; pedicel 2--5 mm, articulate proximally. Tepals greenish white, ovate, 2--3 × ca. 1 mm, closely 3-veined. Stamens shorter than tepals; anthers subglobose, ca. 0.4 mm, 1/3--1/2 as long as filaments. Capsule broadly globose to broadly obcordate, ca. 3 × 5(--7.5) mm; seeds usually 1 per valve. Fl. and fr. Oct--Apr. 2 n = 14, 16, 32.
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Distribution
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S Guangdong, Hainan [India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand; tropical Africa, Australia].
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Habitat
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Shady places, rocky slopes; near sea level to 200 m.
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Synonym
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Anthericum parviflorum (Wight) Bentham; Chlorophytum parviflorum (Wight) Dalzell; Phalangium parviflorum Wight.
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Chlorophytum laxum: Brief Summary
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Chlorophytum laxum (Bichetii grass, Siam lily, false lily turf, wheat plant) is a flowering plant species in the genus Chlorophytum, widespread through tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia.
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