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Plant Characteristics
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Scientific Names
Iridaceae >	Schizostylis >

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Read about Hesperantha in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Schizostylis (Greek, to cut, and style, alluding to the filiform segments of the style). Iridaceae. Greenhouse or half-hardy plants: sts. fascicled on the rhizome, bulbless or slightly bulbous-thickened at the base: lvs. linear or narrow-ensiform: spathes remote along the simple peduncle, somewhat distichous, greenish, lanceolate, complicate: fl. sessile in the spathe; bracts narrower than the spathe, green or somewhat scarious, 2-keeled; perianth showy, red, the tube slender, the lobes equal, oblong or ovate; ovary 3-celled: caps, obovoid or oblong, the top truncate, 3-grooved, membranaceous.—Two species, S. Afr. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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