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Acidanthera brevicollis

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Name

Identification
Acidanthera brevicollis Baker [family IRIDACEAE ] Gladiolus gueinzii Kunze [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Gladiolus sabulosus G.J.Lewis [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by G.J.Lewis,
Related name
  • Gladiolus sabulosus
  • Acidanthera brevicollis
  • Gladiolus gueinzii

Flora

Entry for ACIDANTHERA brevicollis Baker [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
ACIDANTHERA brevicollis Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1876, 339;—Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 160; Handb. Irid. 187.
Gladiolus Gueinzii Kunze [family IRIDACEAE], in Linnæa xx. 14.
Information
corm depresso-globose; tunics brown, membranous; stem about a foot long including the inflorescence, simple, terete, flexuose, with 2–3 reduced sheathing leaves; produced basal leaves 4–5, linear, erect, thick in texture but not rigid, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/6 in. broad; flowers 3–4, arranged in a lax spike, with a flexuose axis; outer spathe-valve green, oblong-navicular, 3/4–1 in. long; perianth bright purple; tube cylindrical, as long as the spathe; segments equal, oblong, erect, 3/4 in. long; stamens half as long as the segments; anthers lanceolate, basifixed, not sagittate, equalling the filaments. null
Distribution
COAST REGION sandy places at the mouth of the Great Fish River, MacOwan, 1890! sea shore at the mouth of Keiskamma River, Hutton!EASTERN REGION Natal; sea shore at the mouth of Umgeni River, Wood, 55! 1092! without precise locality, Gueinzius! Cooper, 3197! Mrs. Saunders!

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