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Bowiea volubilis

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Name

Identification
Bowiea volubilis Harv. ex Hook.f. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
Related name
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Flora

Entry for BOWIEA volubilis Harv. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
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
BOWIEA volubilis Harv. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5619;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 291; Irmisch in Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Bremen, vi. 433, t. 5.
Information
rootstock a green, globose, tuber-like bulb 4–6 inches in diameter, with a few thick distichous tunics; produced leaves 1–2, small, subterete, erect, vanishing very early; stem sarmentose, reaching a length of 6–8 ft., producing copious, spreading, pinnate branches, with slender, terete, arcuate-ascending branchlets 1–1 1/2 in. long, with a minute, lanceolate bract at the base; flowers greenish, produced from the main stem on long arcuate pedicels, some imperfect, 1/3– 1/2 in. diam.; capsule ovoid, brownish, 1/3– 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Stockenstrom Div.; Katberg, Hutton!EASTERN REGION Transkei, 3000 ft., Bowker! Griqualand East; near Kokstad, 5300 ft., Tyson! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 482! Natal, McKen, 32! Cooper, 3263!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Cooper, 3609! Transvaal, Nelson, 89!

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