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Amaryllis radula

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Name

Identification
Amaryllis radula Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Amaryllis radula

Flora

Entry for BRUNSVIGIA Radula Ait. [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 Radula Ait. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 230;—Herb. Amaryllid. 281; Kunth, Enum. v. 610; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 98.
Amaryllis Radula Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 35, t. 68.
Coburgia Radula Herb. [family ], in Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. 181.
Information
bulb globose, larger than a hazel nut; leaves 2, developed after the flowers, lingulate, obtuse, spreading, 2–3 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad, covered all over the surface with raised, rough papillæ; peduncle ancipitous, not more than 2–3 in. long; flowers 3–5 to an umbel, nearly horizontal, inodorous; pedicels 1–1 1/2 in. long; spathe-valves ovate, reddish, 1/2 in. long; perianth 3/4–1 in. long, cut down very nearly to the ovary; segments lanceolate; stamens declinate, equalling the perianth-segments; ovary turbinate; style as long as the stamens. null
Distribution
WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Karroo, near Olifants River, Masson!
Notes
Sketched by Masson in 1790.

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