Anthericum pterocaulonWelw. ex Baker [family AMTHERICACEAE ] Chlorophytum pterocaulon(Welw. ex Baker) Kativu [family AMTHERICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Anthericum buchananii
Chlorophytum cameronii
Chlorophytum pterocaulon
Anthericum pterocaulon
Flora
Entry for ANTHERICUM pterocaulon Welw. ex Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE]
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
ANTHERICUM pterocaulonWelw. ex Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 258.
Information
Root-fibres long, slender; old leaves splitting into fibres. Leaves 3–4, linear, rigid, glabrous, 2 ft. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad, not ciliated on the margin. Peduncle very long, stiffly erect, acutely angled. Raceme simple, moderately dense, 3–6 in. long; pedicels short, articulated at the middle, the lower 2–3-nate; bracts small, the lower lanceolate. Perianth 1/3– 1/2 in. long; segments with a 3–5-nerved brown keel. Stamens shorter than the perianth; anthers 1/8 in. long, equalling the glabrous filaments.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; between Calundo and Pedras de Guinza, in thickets, Welwitsch, 3795!
