Aristea compressaBuchinger ex Baker [family IRIDACEAE ]
Related name
Aristea compressa
Flora
Entry for ARISTEA compressa Buching. ex Krauss [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
ARISTEA compressaBuching. ex Krauss [family IRIDACEAE], in Flora 1845, 309, nomen;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 111; Handb. Irid. 141.
Information
rhizome cylindrical; fibres short, wiry; leaves of radical rosette linear, moderately firm in texture, strongly ribbed, 6–12 in. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad; stem 1–1 1/2 ft. long, moderately stout, compressed and ancipitous throughout, furnished with 2–3 sheathing short leaves; clusters numerous, small, arranged in a lax deltoid panicle, with alternate erecto-patent branches, all sessile, or one or two of the lower peduncled; spathes 1/4 in. long; outer valves with a green centre and white-brown edge; inner entirely membranous, not lacerated on the margin; perianth-limb 1/4 in. long, segments oblong; stamens half as long as the limb; anthers small, oblong; capsule oblong, nearly sessile, black, glabrous, obtusely angled. 1/4 in. long. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Griqualand East: near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2872! Natal, Krauss, 358! Sanderson, 376! Gerrard, 114! 393!
