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Androcymbium melanthioides

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Identification
Androcymbium melanthioides Willd. [family COLCHICACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ANDROCYMBIUM melanthioides Willd. [family COLCHICACEAE]
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
ANDROCYMBIUM melanthioides Willd. [family COLCHICACEAE], in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. ii. 21;—Schlecht. in Linnæa, i. 89; Kunth, Enum. iv. 153; Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 244; Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 442.
Information
corm ovoid, 1/2–1 in. diam.; tunics nearly black, firm in texture; stem 1–6 in. long above ground; leaves 2–3, linear or lanceolate, the lower 6–8 in. long; capitulum globose, many-flowered, 1/2–1 in. diam.; bracts 4–8, ovate, acute, the inner whitish, scariose, 1–3 in. long, distinctly striped with green or brown, the outer more like the leaves in texture and furnished with a leafy point; pedicels 1/4– 1/2 in. long; perianth whitish, 3/8– 1/2 in. long; claw shorter than the ovate-cucullate blade; stamens as long as or a little longer than the blade; anthers yellowish, 1/12– 1/6 in. long; capsule as long as the perianth; styles 1/6 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Fish River Heights, Hutton! near Little Fish River, Schinz! Graaff Reinet Div.; “Africas Hoogde,” Burke, 285! Zeyher, 1712! summit of Cave Mountain, near Graaff Reinet, 4200 ft., Bolus, 464!EASTERN REGION Natal; under the Drakensberg, Keit, 6!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Crocodile River, Oates! Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 5000 ft., Wood, 4290! Thorncroft, 274! Moodies, near Barberton, 4500 ft., Galpin, 789! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5768! Johannesberg, E.S.C.A.   Herb., 370! near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Var. β, Transvaal; near Pretoria, Roe in Herb. Bolus, 3042! Var. γ, Orange Free State; Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3727!

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