Tritoma burchelliiHerb. ex Sweet [family LILIACEAE ]
Related name
Tritoma burchellii
Flora
Entry for KNIPHOFIA Burchellii Kunth [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
KNIPHOFIA BurchelliiKunth [family ], Enum. iv. 552;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 363, excl. syn.; Journ. Bot. 1885, 280.
Tritoma BurchelliiHerb. [family ], in Bot. Reg. t. 1745.
Information
leaves ensiform-acuminate, bright green, moderately firm in texture, 2–3 ft. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad low down, acutely keeled, smooth on the margin, with 15–20 ribs on each side of the midrib; peduncle stout, 3 ft. long; raceme dense, 1/2–1 ft. long, 2 in. diam.; pedicels 1/6– 1/4 in. long; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 1/4 in. long; perianth subcylindrical, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/6 in. diam. at the throat, bright yellow, much tinged with red when young; segments ovate, as long as broad; stamens finally just exserted. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Burchell!