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Babiana mucronata

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Name

Identification
Babiana mucronata (Jacq.) Ker Gawl. [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for BABIANA mucronata Ker [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
BABIANA mucronata Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 234;—Ker, Gen. Irid. 149; Baker, Handb. Irid. 183.
Gladiolus mucronatus Jacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 253; Collect. iv. 162.
BABIANA scabrifolia Brehmer ex Klatt Ergänz [family IRIDACEAE], 15.
Information
corm globose, 1 in. diam.; tunics of fine matted fibres; leaves 5–6, with a petiole 3–4 in. long, and an ensiform, glabrous, plicate lamina 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; flowers several in a dense spike on a short peduncle, reaching about to the top of the leaves; outer spathe-valve oblong-lanceolate, firm in texture, green, closely ribbed, glabrous or slightly hairy, 3/4–1 in. long; perianth lilac; tube as long as the spathe; segments unequal, oblong-unguiculate, an inch long; stamens half as long as the perianth-limb. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; near Holle River, under 1000 ft., Drège, 2624! Lange Vallei, Drège, 2623!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand, MacOwan!

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