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Babiana stricta

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Identification
Babiana stricta (Aiton) Ker Gawl. [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Entry for BABIANA stricta 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 stricta Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 234;—Bot. Mag. tt. 621 and 637; Gen. Irid. 150; Baker, Handb. Irid. 184.
Gladiolus strictus Ait. [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 63; Red. Lil. t. 90.
Gladiolus plicatus Linn. [family IRIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. edit. 2. 53, ex parte; Thunb. Diss. p. 20 and Prodr. 9, ex parte; Fl. Cap. i. 211.
Gladiolus nervosus Lam. [family IRIDACEAE], Encyc. ii. 724.
BABIANA villosa Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 234; Bot. Mag. t. 583.
Ixia villosa Ait. [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 58.
Ixia punicea Jacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 287.
Ixia flabelliformis Salisb. [family IRIDACEAE], Prodr. 37.
Gladiolus villosus Vahl [family IRIDACEAE], Symb. ii. 114–5.
Gladiolus puniceus Vahl [family IRIDACEAE], Symb. ii. 114–5.
BABIANA purpurea Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1019.
Ixia purpurea Jacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 286.
Information
corm globose, 1/2 in. diam., with a long neck and tunics of fine matted fibres; basal leaves about 6, moderately firm in texture, with an ensiform hairy lamina 4–6 in. long; stem 1/2–1 ft. long including the inflorescence, which overtops the leaves; spikes 1–3, moderately dense, many-flowered, with a very hairy axis; spathe-valves oblong, firm in texture, closely ribbed, very hairy, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; perianth various in colour, red or lilac; tube funnel-shaped at the top, as long as or a little longer than the spathe; segments subequal, obtuse, oblanceolate-oblong, 3/4–1 in. long; stamens about half as long as the perianth-segments; style-branches 1/6 in. long, flattened at the tip. null
Distribution
COAST REGION between Paarl and Pont, below 1000 ft., Drège, 8390a! Caledon Div.; near Appels Kraal, by the Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4001! Var. β, Malmesbury Div.; near Groene Kloof, 500 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 584! 586! Var. δ, Tulbagh Div.; Halfmanshof, near Twenty-four Rivers, 400 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 543!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!
Notes
Besides the varieties cited, B. undulato-venosa, parviflora, quadripartita and multiflora, Klatt, Ergänz. 16–17, belong here.

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