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Giant monocarpic Ros plants; stems very short; R thick, fleshy; L radical, numerous, flat, ± succulent, with a brown tubular tip withering to leave a ragged apex; Inf large scapose terminal oblong thyrses or globular compound racemes, subtended by numerous sheathing Bra; Fl bisexual, actinomorphic, 3-merous, each subtended by a conspicuous Bra; Per segments united at the base into a tube, free parts spreading; St 6, Fil linear-subulate, somewhat enlarged at the base, adnate to the Per for ± 1/2 of their length, inserted into a pit at the base of the Anth; Anth longitudinally dehiscent, bilocular; Ov inferior, 3-locular; ovules 40 - 50 per locule; Sty 1, Sti 3-angled; Fr large ellipsoidal to ovoid loculicidal capsules 7 - 10 cm with short apical beak 6 - 7 mm; Se winged, flattened.
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Forster, P.I. (2001). Doryanthaceae. In: Eggli, U. (eds) Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Monocotyledons. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56715-5_12
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