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Perennial herb with round-based corms, bearing membranous to fibrous tunics. Leaves few, the cauline lanceolate, plicate. Stem flattened, winged, unbranched. Inflorescence a spike, bearing fairly large green bracts. Flowers actinomorphic, white; tube long. Stamens included within the tube. Style filiform, with 3 branches, each branch deeply forked. Capsule oblong.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Savannosiphon Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1851
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Savannosiphon

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Savannosiphon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a new species in 1980. It contains only one known species, Savannosiphon euryphylla, native to tropical Africa (Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe).[1][2][3][4]

The genus name, derived from the word savanna and the Greek word siphon (meaning "tube") alludes to its habitat and the structure of its perianth tube.[5]

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  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Lebrun J.-P. & Stork, A.L. (1995). Énumération des Plants à Fleurs D'Afrique Tropicale 3: 1-341. Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève.
  3. ^ Goldblatt, P. (1996). Iridaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-89.
  4. ^ Geerinck, D (2005). Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaïre - Rwanda - Burundi) Iridaceae: 1-102. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Meise.
  5. ^ Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2008). The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. pp. 123–24. ISBN 978-0-88192-897-6.
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Savannosiphon: Brief Summary

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Savannosiphon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a new species in 1980. It contains only one known species, Savannosiphon euryphylla, native to tropical Africa (Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe).

The genus name, derived from the word savanna and the Greek word siphon (meaning "tube") alludes to its habitat and the structure of its perianth tube.

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