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Triteleia lilacina

Triteleia lilacina Greene  
Family: Asparagaceae
Volcanic Triplet-Lily
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J. Chris Pires in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Leaves 10-40 cm × 4-22 mm. Scape 30-60 cm, smooth to scabrous. Flowers: perianth white, unstriped, 7-10 mm, tube shallowly bowl-shaped, 2-4 mm, hyaline vescicles present in tube, lobes 7-12 mm, 2-3 times longer than tube; stamens attached at 1 level, equal; filaments linear, 2-4 mm, apical appendages absent; anthers bluish purple or bluish purple-dotted, 1-2 mm; ovary twice as long as stipe; pedicel 0.5-5 cm. 2n = 16.

Flowering spring (Mar--Jun). Dry rocky outcrops, volcanic hills and mesas; 100--200 m; Calif.

Triteleia lilacina differs from T. hyacinthina in base chromosome number and in that the interior of the perianth tube is covered with hyaline vesicles (making a glassy nectary). In addition, T. lilacina has linear filaments and bluish purple anthers at anthesis, whereas T. hyacinthina tends to have triangular-dilated filaments and whitish to yellow (or rarely blue) anthers at anthesis.

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