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Anthericum venulosum

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Identification
Anthericum venulosum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE ] Verified by Unknown, Chlorophytum blepharophyllum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kativu & Nordal, Isotype of Anthericum viridulobrunneum Poelln. [family ANTHERICACEAE ] Verified by Unknown,
Related name
  • Chlorophytum blepharophyllum
  • Anthericum venulosum
  • Chlorophytum cameronii
  • Anthericum viridulobrunneum

Flora

Entry for ANTHERICUM venulosum 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 venulosum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 352.
Information
Root-fibres slender, wiry; neck with a few bristles. Leaves many, radical, lanceolate, very rigid, crisped, strongly veined, glabrous on the surface, distinctly ciliated on the margin, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/2 in. broad. Peduncle 6–9 in. long, glabrous, acutely angled upwards. Racemes simple, lax, 4–6 in. long; pedicels short, articulated at the middle, 1–2-nate; bracts minute, ovate. Perianth 1/3– 1/2 in. long; segments with a 3–5-nerved red-brown keel. Anthers linear, 1/6 in. long, longer than the glabrous filaments. Capsule small, globose.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Taveta, 2000–3000 ft., Johnston!

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