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Anthericum uyuiense

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Name

Identification
Anthericum uyuiense Rendle [family ANTHERICACEAE ] Chlorophytum cameronii (Baker) Kativu [family ANTHERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kativu,S.,
Related name
  • Anthericum uyuiense
  • Chlorophytum cameronii
Common name
  • àlbásàr kwaďi = onion of the frog (RES) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for ANTHERICUM uyuiense 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 uyuiense Rendle [family ANTHERICACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 415.
Information
Root-fibres slender; neck crowned with short bristles. Leaves 5 to a stem, linear, glabrous, the longest 20–22 in. long, 2 1/2–4 lin. broad. Peduncle naked, shorter than the leaves, flattened upwards, not winged. Raceme simple, 4 in. long; rhachis not flexuose; pedicels short, ascending, articulated below the middle, lower geminate; bracts small, ovate-acuminate. Perianth 1/2– 5/8 in. long; segments linear-oblong, 5-nerved in the purple keel. Stamens as long as the perianth; anthers linear, above 1/4 in. long; filaments flattened, glabrous.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. between Uyui and the coast, Taylor!
Notes
No specimen at Kew.

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