Entry for ALBUCA viridiflora Jacq. [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 viridifloraJacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. Suppl. 98; Ic. ii. 21, t. 446;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 100; Bot. Mag. t. 1656; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 496; Kunth, Enum. iv. 374; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 287.
Information
bulb globose, 1–1 1/2 in. diam.; tunics not splitting into fibres at the top; leaves 6–9, linear-subulate, channelled down the face, a foot long, densely glandular-pubescent; peduncle a foot long, glandular towards the base; raceme laxly 6–10-flowered; pedicels cernuous at the apex, the lower 1 1/2–2 in. long; bracts lanceolate, 3/4–1 in. long; flowers inodorous; perianth 3/4–1 in. long; the segments green, with a pale yellow margin; outer stamens sterile; style prismatic, as long as the ovary. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Known to me only from Jacquin's figure and description.
