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Identification
Anthericum speciosum Rendle [family ANTHERICACEAE ] Chlorophytum pterocaulon (Welw. ex Baker) Kativu [family ANTHERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kativu,S.,
Related name
  • Anthericum speciosum
  • Chlorophytum pterocaulon

Flora

Entry for ANTHERICUM speciosum Rendle [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 speciosum Rendle [family ANTHERICACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 413, t. 33.
Information
Root-fibres many, slender; root-neck crowned with bristles. Leaves 8, distichous, glabrous, the largest sheathing the stem for 1 ft. and with a free blade about as long and above 1 in. broad. Peduncle 1 1/2 ft. long, flattened and acutely angled; edges minutely ciliated. Raceme simple, moderately dense, 4–5 in. long; pedicels short, erecto-patent, solitary or geminate; upper bracts small, ovate; lower lanceolate, as long as the pedicels. Perianth 1/2 in. long; segments 5–7-nerved in the dark red keel. Anthers linear, above 1/4 in. long, longer than the glabrous filaments.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Unyamwezi; Uyui, Taylor!
Notes
No specimen at Kew.

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