Entry for ALBUCA Bainesii Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
ALBUCA BainesiiBaker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 290.
Information
Leaves linear, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1 in. broad low down, channelled down the face. Peduncle stout. Raceme moderately dense, 15–18 in. long; pedicels ascending, lower 1 in. long; bracts lanceolate-subulate, protruding beyond the buds; lower as long as the pedicels. Perianth 1–1 1/4 in. long; segments oblong, pale yellow, with a many-nerved red-brown keel. Stamens all fertile; anthers small, oblong; filaments lanceolate-subulate, 3/4 in. long. Style subulate, 8–9 lin. long.
Distribution
Ngamiland Mozamb. Dist. between Kobis and North Shaw Valley, Baines!
