Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

138 ANTHERICACEAE
15. Roots wiry with tubers on short lateral branches; flowers greenish 16
- Root tubers as swellings in the distal parts of the roots, not on lateral branches,
or roots fusiform and fleshy without tubers; flowers whitish to brownish 17
16. Leaves produced with the flowers; tepals 5–7 mm long 14. C. gallabatense
- Leaves produced after the flowers; tepals up to 5 mm long 15. C. micranthum
17. Pedicels ± drooping at anthesis, completely drooping in fruit, capsules pendant,
pyramide shaped. 16. C. pendulum
- Pedicels patent to erect at all stages, capsules erect, shaped differently 18
18. Leaves distichous; seeds irregularly folded 19
- Leaves rosulate; seeds flat to saucershaped 21
19. Roots fleshy, fusiform, without tubers 17. C. subpetiolatum
- Roots thin, wiry with distal tubers 20
20. Leaves up to 0.6 cm wide; peduncle pubescent; tepals less than 10 mm long,
with 3 veins 18. C. affine
- Leaves usually more than 0.6 cm wide; peduncle glabrous; tepals 15 mm
or more long, with 5–7 veins 19. C. cameronii
21. Leaf bases producing a prominent pseudostem up to 40 cm long; roots, thick
spongy without tubers 20. C. pseudocaule
- Leaf bases not forming prominent pseudostem; roots medium thick with
elongated tubers 22
22. Inflorescence elongated to up 75 cm, lax, with internodes 1–2 cm long; often
with small plantlets at the nodes (‘pseudovivipary’); capsules up to 5 (–6) cm
long 21. C. comosum
- Inflorescence up to 40 (rarely 50) cm long, dense, with internodes less than
1 cm long; without small plantlets in the inflorescence; capsules (5–) 6–10 mm
23
23. Plants drying yellowish to brownish; pedicels 9 mm or longer; tepals
longer than 9 mm, capsules triangular in cross section 23. C. macrophyllum
- Plants drying blackish; pedicels shorter than 9 mm; tepals shorter than 9 mm;
capsules deeply 3-lobed in cross section 24
24. Plants without ciliate basal leaves (cataphylls); leaves petiolate, margin
at most scabrous, never ciliateregion 24. C. filipendulum
- Plants with ciliate cataphylls; leaves without a petiole, margin ciliate;
recorded from the Tigray, Gojam and Illubabor 25. C. blepharophyllum