Aristea ecklonii v Libertia caerulea
Arnold Trachtenberg (Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:33:04 PDT)

Paul:

Here goes:

From Kuitzki "Libertia spreng.

" Small to medium evergreen rhizomatous perennials; leaves several,
lanceolate to linear; flowering stems several branched, branches long or
very short and sometimes clustered; inflorescence spathes short,
pedicels exposed; flowers white or blue; tepals free, subequal or the
outer whorl much smaller; filaments united in a short tube, anthers
erect; style short, dividing above the filament tube into 3 slender
branches extending between the stamens; capsules sometimes indehiscent;
seeds brown and shed immediately or colored and exposed in the open
capsule; x =19. About 10 ssp., Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand and
S. America."

Aristea Aiton

Found in Sub Saharan Africa including Madagascar.