''Pancratium parvum'' is a
bulb
In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf basesBell, A.D. 1997. ''Plant form: an illustrated guide to flowering plant morphology''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. that function as food storage organs duri ...
ous ephemeral plant found in India.
Flowering season is May–June.
This herb can be 30–50 cm tall, bulb 4–5 cm.
Leaves 30–45 cm, linear
Flowers fragrant, 3-8 in umbel on slender scape 15–25 cm long; bracts 2, 5 cm, greenish white.
Filaments long; flowers opening at night.
Fruits 2 cm, globose, 3 lobed. Occasionally found on cliffs in evergreen forest, semi-evergreen, moist deciduous forest. The parvum has a bulb with neck and short stamens.
References
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parvum
Flora of India (region)
Plants described in 1850
Taxa named by Nicol Alexander Dalzell