Bellevalia cyrenaica Maire & Weiller , it is a bulbous geophyte, glabrous herb, bulb ovate 2.5 x 2 cm, covered with brown membranous tunics. Leaves usually 2 per plant, ± as long as the scape; linear 22 x 2.5 cm canaliculate, attenuate at tip, green portion basal violaceous in colour, margin papillose, papillae very short; scape 1 or (2) per plant, 18-30 cm long, green at base and blue violaceous at summit. Inflorescence racemose of 10-15 pedicellate. Flowers pcdicels short 3-5 mm long, blue violaceous in colour, bracteates, bracts 2, membranous 0vate-delate sometimes obovate, whitish-bluish, ± half as long a pcdicels. Perianth cylindrical-campanulate, 6-8 mm long, white greenish sometimes tinged with pink. Tepals ovate obtuse conflate above the middle of the perianth to form a tube. Stamens 6, included, filaments white, ± dentate, adnate to the throat of the floral tube. Anthers dark violaceous, with violet pollen. Ovary ± ovoid, blue-violaceous with white style, stigma capitate. Capsule subglobose-triquelrate. Seeds 2 in each locule, sub globose c. 2 mm in diameter, blackish in colour
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