Aristea ecklonii v Libertia caerulea
Arnold Trachtenberg (Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:00:43 PDT)

Aristea Aiton

"Small to large evergreen or seasonal perennials with a thick or slender
rhizome; leaves lanceolate to linear or terete; flowering stem
sometimes compressed or winged, variously branched or simple;
inflorescences composed of 1-many binate rhipidia arranged in panicles
or crowded in fascicles on short branches; flowers usually fugaceous,
stellate, usually shades of blue, occasionally white or mauve, without
nectar or rarely with perigonal nectaries; tepals occasionally with
contrasting marks, basally connate, subequal or the inner or outer whorl
smaller; style deflexed barely divided apically or broadly 3- winged;
seeds several to many and angular to cylindric with oblique ends or 1- 2
per locule, often compressed radically arillate; x=16. About 50 spp.,
sub-Saharan Africa including Madagascar."

Kubitzki " Families and Genera of Vascular Plants Volume III Flowering
Plants Monocotyledons"

Enjoy

Arnold