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Bulbine abyssinica

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Name

Identification
Bulbine abyssinica A.Rich. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bulbine abyssinica

Flora

Entry for BULBINE asphodeloides Roem. et Schultes [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
BULBINE asphodeloides Roem. et Schultes [family ASPHODELACEAE], Syst. Veg. vii. 444;—Kunth, Enum. iv. 564; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 345.
Anthericum asphodeloides Linn. [family ANTHERICACEAE], Sp. Plant. 311; Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 6; Jacq. Hort. Vind. ii. 85, t. 181.
BULBINE graminea Haw. [family ASPHODELACEAE], Revis. 33?
BULBINE abyssinica A. Rich. [family ASPHODELACEAE], Fl. Abyss. ii. 334, t. 97.
Information
acaulescent, perennial, with a short, thick, tuberous rootstock; leaves 10–20, subterete from a dilated clasping base 1/2 in. broad, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/12– 1/8 in. thick at the middle, glaucous, tapering to the point, nearly flat on the face; peduncle 1/2–1 ft. long, ancipitous towards the base; raceme dense, sometimes 1/2 ft. long, 1 1/2–2 in. diam.; lower pedicels erecto-patent, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; bracts lanceolate-deltoid with a long cusp; perianth bright yellow, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; capsule turbinate, 1/6 in. diam.; seeds 3–4 in a cell. null
Range
Also Abyssinia, Angola, and highlands of the Zambesi.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; near Little Fish River, MacOwan, 1834! Colesberg Div., Shaw! Hanover Div.; near Hanover, Shaw, 53!COAST REGION Cape Flats and neighbourhood of Cape Town, Zeyher, 1692! Ecklon and Zeyher, 136! Pappe! Caledon Div.; Hartebeest River, Zeyher, 4227! near the Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4228! Riversdale Div.; between Zoetmelks River and Little Vet River, Burchell, 6288!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; near Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 99! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1008! without precise locality, Gerrard, 357!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; between Spuigslang and the Vaal River, Burchell, 1711! near the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2002! 2089 Orange Free State; near Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 878! Bechuanaland; on the rocky ridge at Takun, Burchell, 2258! between Kuruman and the Vaal River, Cruickshank in Herb. Bolus, 2551! Transvaal; near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4300! (a form with very slender leaves).

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