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Hensmania turbinata
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Hensmania turbinata

Hensmania turbinata is a species of herb in the family Asphodelaceae, first described in by Stephan Endlicher as Xerotes turbinata, and transferred to the genus, Hensmania, in 1903 by William Vincent Fitzgerald.

This is a tufted herb where the major photosynthesis occurs in the stems. It flowers from November to January and fruits from December to February.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1504379.