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Albuca tenuifolia

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Name

Identification
Albuca tenuifolia unrecorded [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Lachenalia trichophylla Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Albuca tenuifolia
  • Lachenalia trichophylla

Flora

Entry for ALBUCA tenuifolia Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
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
ALBUCA tenuifolia Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 335;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 288.
Information
bulb ovoid, 1/2– 3/4 in. diam.; tunics membranous, not splitting into fibres at the top; leaves 6–9, terete, very slender, 6–9 in. long, 1/2 lin. diam., faintly channelled down the face, obscurely glandular: peduncle slender, 4–6 in. long; flowers few, laxly corymbose; pedicels erecto-patent, lower 2–3 in. long; lower bracts 3/4–1 in. long; perianth erect, 3/4 in. long, pale yellow, banded with green, turning to reddish-brown; stamens all fertile; style triquetrous in the upper half, longer than the ovary. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, MacOwan. Not in Kew Herbarium.
Notes
Described from a cultivated plant. A specimen collected near Graaff Reinet (Bolus, 823) is either this or nearly allied, but the leaves are not glandular.

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