10 Hesperantha falcata Seeds - Indigenous Bulbs Seeds

Hesperantha falcata Seeds

Hesperantha is a cormous genus in the Iridaceae family with 79 species. Four are found in tropical Africa, 37 in summer-rainfall southern Africa, and 42 in winter-rainfall southern Africa. Many of the former are found in the eastern southern African Drakensberg in Kwa Zulu-Natal.

In spite of the large number of species there is limited variability in the floral structure. Flowers are radially symmetrical with a style that divides at the mouth of the tube into three branches that spread over the tepals. Most plants are short, 15 to 20 cm. tall or less. A number of them open late in the afternoon or early evening and those are often very fragrant.

Hesperantha falcata is widespread growing on sandstone and shale slopes and coastal flats from the Northwest Cape to the Eastern Cape. It has white or yellow flowers, with the outer tepals brown or red. The white fragrant (jasmine to frangipani or acrid musk scented) flowers open late in the afternoon or evening and the yellow unscented flowers during the middle of the day. It is pollinated both by bees and moths. The white flowers are very similar to Hesperanth cucullata, but are smaller and the corms of each species are different.

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