Entry for CRINUM Kirkii Baker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 376, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
CRINUM KirkiiBaker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 6512. —Handb. Amaryllid. 91.
Information
Bulb globose, 6–8 in. diam.; neck 1/2 ft. long. Leaves a dozen or more to a bulb, reflexing from near the base, thin, ensiform, bright green, 3 1/2–4 ft. long, 4–4 1/2 in. broad low down, tapering gradually to a long point, denticulate on the edge. Peduncles stout, compressed, 1–1 1/2 ft. long. Flowers 12–15 in an umbel; pedicels none or very short; spathe-valves ovate, reddish-brown, 3–4 in. long. Perianth-tube curved, greenish, 4 in. long; segments oblong, acute, ascending, as long as the tube, 1–1 1/4 in. broad, white with a broad keel of bright red. Filaments white, 1 1/2 in. shorter than the segments; anthers linear, 1/2 in. long. Style overtopping the anthers.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. cultivated specimen, Kirk!Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro expedition, cultivated specimen, Smith!British East Africa Nile Land near Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1228B!
Notes
Described from a plant sent from Zanzibar to Kew by Sir John Kirk in 1879.