Muscari maritimum Desf. / Homotypic Synonyms: Leopoldia maritima (Desf.) Parl., it is a bulbous geophyte, glabrous herb. Bulb ovoid, c. 2.5 cm in diameter, covered with brownish to blackish, membranous tunics. Leaves 2-4 per plant, linear-lanaliculate with attenuating lips, and slightly denticulate margins, up 10 40 x 0.3 cm, usually reflexing at top 1/3. Scape 20-35 cm long, with loose raceme; pedicels violaceous, 2-braclcate, c. 6 mm long al maturity. Sterile flowers at top usually with much shorter pedicels; bracts membranous, ± linear. Perianth violaceous, turning to yellow-greenish when mature, ± campanulate with constriction at the lower half, 5-7 mm long, segments ± oval with papillose tips. Stamens biseriate, ± adnate to middle of the floral tube; filaments subulate c. 1 mm long. Anthers medifixed, violet in colour. Ovary sub globular with marked carpels. Style shorter than stamens with capitate stigma. Capsule triquetrate, with distinct valves. Seed 1-2 in each locule, sub globose, black, c. 2 mm in diameter.
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