Catalogue no.:	V-640007
Taxon:	Drimiopsis barteri Baker
Label:	Drimiopsis barteri
Family:	Asparagaceae
Collector:	Anders Bjørnstad
Collector no.:	1158
Date:	1971 12 13
Country:	Tanzania
Province:	Iringa
Locality:	Ruaha National Park: 3.5 km N of Msembe
Habitat:	With Iphigenia oliveri, Eriospermum abyssinicum, E. triphyllum, and other geophytes in open Combretum hereroense ssp. volkensii bushed grassland with scattered Cassia abbreviata, Lannea humilis, Maerua parvifolia on a rather heavy, badly drained clay soil
Attributes:	Perennial herb with bulbs 4-5 cm in diameter. Leaves pale green, more or less linear to 10 cm lomg to 10 mm broad at base. Peduncle (1-2 per plant) 10 cm long red-spotted or not. Inflorescence a spike with approximately 40 flowers. Twepals white turning green (2(-3) mm long, seemingly always closed around ovary