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Amaryllis orientalis

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Identification
Amaryllis orientalis L. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ] Brunsvigia orientalis (L.) Aiton ex Eckl. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Brunsvigia gigantea Heist. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ] Brunsvigia multiflora Ait. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Brunsvigia orientalis
  • Brunsvigia gigantea
  • Pancratium
  • Amaryllis orientalis
  • Brunsvigia multiflora
  • Brunsvigia josephinae

Flora

Entry for BRUNSVIGIA gigantea Heist. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
BRUNSVIGIA gigantea Heist. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Monogr. cum icone;—Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 98.
BRUNSVIGIA multiflora Ait. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 230; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1619; Herb. Amaryllid. 280, t. 36, fig. 1; Kunth, Enum. v. 606.
Amaryllis orientalis Linn. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. 422; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 38, t. 74.
Hæmanthus orientalis Thunb. [family ], Prodr. 59; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 298.
BRUNSVIGIA orientalis Eckl. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Top. Verz. 7.
Coburgia multiflora Herb. [family ], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2213.
BRUNSVIGIA rubricaulis Roem. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryllid. 57.
Information
bulb the size of a child's head; tunics brown, membranous; leaves about 4, spreading, lingulate, 3–5 in. broad, obtuse, closely ribbed, moderately firm in texture, usually not more than 6–9 in. long, but sometimes, in cultivation, reaching 12–15 in.; scape red or green, 8–12 in. long, as thick as a man's finger; flowers 20–30 in an umbel; pedicels stout, strongly ribbed, 4–6 in. long; spathe-valves deltoid, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth bright red, decurved, 2–2 1/2 in. long, with a campanulate tube 1/4 in. long, and lanceolate segments; stamens about as long as the perianth; anthers oblong, 1/6 in. long; ovary turbinate, 3/4 in. long in the flowering stage; style finally exceeding the stamens; capsule turbinate, acutely triquetrous, 2–3 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. diam. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Colesberg, Shaw!COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg! Cape Div.; sand-dunes near Constantia and Zeekoe Vallei, Thunberg! at the foot of Muizenberg, near Kalk Bay, 100 ft., Bolus, 4526! Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, Burchell, 7930!
Notes
I have not seen B. albiflora, Eckl. Top. Verz. 7 (name only), founded on an unlocalized specimen gathered by Brehm about 1795.

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