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Asparagaceae (=Liliaceae) The Asparagus Family 32 Asparagaceae species recorded from Malta.
Dry grassland and cultivated ground.
Bulb-tunics pink. Leaves 3-5(-7), 7-40 (-60) cm × 5-17(-30) mm, linear, usually shorter than scape. Scape 15-50(-80) cm, erect. Raceme 40-80 × 3-6 cm, lax, cylindrical. Pedicels of fertile flowers 4-10(-15) mm, patent, not elongating. Fertile flowers 5-9•5 mm, oblong-urceolate, pale brown; shoulders rounded, darker brown; teeth cream to pale yellowish-brown. Pedicels of sterile flowers 6-25(-40) mm, fleshy, ascending, violet. Sterile flowers 2-6(-10) mm, globose to obovoid, bright violet, shorter than fertile flowers, often numerous, in a conspicuous, usually corymbose terminal tuft. Fruiting raceme 8-40 cm, lax, cylindrical. Capsule 10-15 × 6•5-8 mm, obovoid, emarginate.
Europe, northwards to N. France and N.W. Ukraine, but doubtfully native in the northern part of its range.