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Androcymbium roseum

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Name

Identification
Androcymbium roseum Engl. [family COLCHICACEAE ]
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  • Androcymbium roseum

Flora

Entry for ANDROCYMBIUM roseum Engl. [family COLCHICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
ANDROCYMBIUM roseum Engl. [family COLCHICACEAE], Jahrb. x. 282.
Information
Acaulescent. Corm globose, under 1 in. diam.; tunics rigid, dull brown; neck 1–2 in. long. Proper leaves several, linear from an ovate base, 3–6 in. long; inner (bracts) ovate, not pale and veined with green. Flowers many in a cluster. Perianth-segments 1 in. long; blade lanceolate, pale red, about as long as the claw. Filaments much shorter than the blade of the perianth-segments; anthers small, oblong.
Distribution
Hereroland Lower Guinea Otyikango-Okatiti, and near the hot spring “Barmen,” Marloth 1360, Schinz 62, Gobabis, Schinz, 63!Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; at Humpata, Johnston! Camba Serreno, Newton!

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