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Aristea cyanea

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Identification
Aristea cyanea Not on sheet. [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Aristea stipitata
  • Aristea oligocephala
  • Aristea cyanea
  • Aristea ecklonii
  • Ixia africana

Flora

Entry for ARISTEA cyanea Soland. [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 cyanea Soland. [family IRIDACEAE], in Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 67;—Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 10; Red. Lil. t. 462; Curt. in Bot. Mag. t. 458; Klatt in Linnæa, xxxiv. 548; Baker, Handb. Irid. 144.
Ixia africana Linn. [family IRIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. 51; Burm. Prodr. Cap. 1.
Moræa africana Murr. [family ], Syst. Veg. xiv. 95; Thunb. Diss. Moræa, no. 3; Prodr. 10; Fl. Cap. i. 264.
Moræa Aristea Lam. [family ], Ill. 114; Poir. Ency. iv. 276.
ARISTEA eriophora Pers. [family IRIDACEAE], Syn. i. 41; Eckl. Top. Verz. 17.
Information
clusters densely tufted; root-fibres long, slender, wiry; leaves of the radical rosette linear, moderately firm in texture, 3–6 in. long, 1/12– 1/8 in. broad, finely closely ribbed; stems 2–6 in. long, subterete; clusters of flowers 1–4, globose, laxly corymbose; spathes 1/3 in. long, outer valves with a firm centre and brown membranous, conspicuously fimbriated margin; inner entirely membranous; perianth-limb 1/2 in. long; capsule oblong, acutely angled, 1/3 in. long, with a very short pedicel. null
Distribution
COAST REGION near Paarl, Drège! vicinity of Cape Town, Ecklon, 58b! Thunberg! Zeyher, 4047! Burchell, 144! 727! Bolus, 2802! Swellendam Div., Zeyher, 4047b!

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