Anthericum rubellumBaker [family ANTHERICACEAE ] Verified by Unknown, Anthericum zanguebaricumBaker [family ANTHERICACEAE ] Verified by Milne-Redhead, Chlorophytum cameronii(Baker)S.Kativu [family ANTHERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Unknown,
Related name
Anthericum zanguebaricum
Chlorophytum cameronii
Anthericum rubellum
Flora
Entry for ANTHERICUM rubellum 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 rubellumBaker [family ANTHERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 352.
Information
Root-fibres slender; neck crowned with a dense ring of bristles. Leaves 6–9 to a stem, linear, moderately firm, glabrous, 1/2 ft. long, 1/6– 1/4 in. leafless, flattened, as long as the leaves. Panicle of 3–5 racemes; bracts broad, not ciliated on the margin. Peduncle flattened, acutely angled, 1 ft. long. Racemes simple or forked at the base, moderately dense; pedicels short, articulated at the middle, the lower geminate; bracts minute, brown, ovate or lanceolate. Perianth 1/3 in. long; segments linear-oblong, with a 5–7-nerved brown keel. Anthers linear, 1/6 in. long, much longer than the glabrous filaments.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston!
