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Anomatheca grandiflora

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Name

Identification
Anomatheca grandiflora Baker [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Unknown, Freesia grandiflora Klatt [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Unknown,
Related name
  • Anomatheca grandiflora
  • Tritonia graminifolia
  • Lapeirousia graminifolia
  • Freesia grandiflora

Flora

Entry for LAPEYROUSIA grandiflora Baker [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
LAPEYROUSIA grandiflora Baker [family ], in Bot. Mag. t. 6924;—Handb. Irid. 173.
Anomatheca grandiflora Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1876, 337.
Information
corm globose, 1/2 in. diam.; tunics brown, finely fibrous; leaves 4–8 in a distichous basal tuft, linear, erect, a foot or more long, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad; stem simple, terete, as long as the leaves; flowers 4–6 in a lax spike; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, green, 1/2 in. long, much exceeding the inner; perianth-tube pale, subcylindrical, 1 in. long; segments oblanceolate, bright scarlet, as long as the tube, the three lower with a darker blotch at the base; stamens as long as the segments. null
Range
Also Highlands of the Zambesi country, collected by Dr. Meller, Sir John Kirk, and Mr. Buchanan.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Delagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro. Flowered at Kew, Oct., 1886.

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