Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asparagales Link
Family
Alliaceae Borkh.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Nothoscordum Kunth, Enum. Pl. 4, 457 (1843)
 Description

Bulbous perennials; lacking onion smell; bulb tunicate. Leaves all basal, linear, flat. Scape slender. Spathe-valves 2, rarely 3. Flowers white or yellow in 2-many-flowered umbels; segments similar, connate at base, or to middle. Staminal-filaments ± dilated. Capsule loculicidal, ± 3-lobed. Seeds many, black.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
Number of species in New Zealand within Nothoscordum Kunth
CategoryNumber
Exotic: Fully Naturalised1
Total1
 Bibliography
Kunth, K.S. 1843: Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, Secundum Familias Naturales Disposita, Adjectis Characteribus, Differntiis et Synonymis. Vol. 4. Stutgardiae et Tubingae [Stuttgart and Tübingen] .
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.