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Albuca donaldsonii

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Name

Identification
Albuca donaldsonii Rendle [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Ornithogalum pulchrum Schinz [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Albuca donaldsonii
  • Ornithogalum pulchrum

Flora

Entry for ORNITHOGALUM donaldsonii (Rendle) Greenway [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ORNITHOGALUM donaldsonii (Rendle) Greenway [family HYACINTHACEAE], (1969);
Albuca donaldsonii Rendle [family HYACINTHACEAE], (1896). Fig. 35. [type as above]
Urginea somalensis Chiov. [family HYACINTHACEAE], (1932);. types: S3, “Afmadu”, Gorini 40 (FT syn.) & “Gobuin” and “Chisimaio”, Gorini 309 (FT syn.).
Information
Plant up to 1.5 m tall, glabrous; bulb up to 7.5 cm across. Leaves linear, up to 60 cm long. Raceme 25–300-flowered; pedicels 20–45 mm long. Tepals 12–16 mm long, whitish; midrib green, of 3 or 5 vascular bundles. Filaments 8–11 mm long, narrowly triangular. Ovary ovoid, with a 0.5–1 mm long stipe. Capsule 12–16 mm long. Seeds 6–8 mm in diam.
Range
C1; S1, 3
Altitude range
50–350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Dahir 6571; Thulin, Hedrén & Dahir 7358, 7661.
Distribution (external)
E Ethiopia
Kenya
N Tanzania

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