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Brunsvigia marginata

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Name

Identification
Brunsvigia marginata (Jacq.) Aiton [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for NERINE marginata Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
NERINE marginata Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryllid. 283;—Kunth, Enum. v. 615; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 102.
Amaryllis marginata Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 34, t. 65.
Brunsvigia marginata Ait. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 230; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1443.
Imhofia marginata Herb. [family ], App. 18.
Elisena marginata Roem. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryllid. 63.
Information
bulb ovoid, 2–3 in. diam., with imbricated, dark brown, membranous tunics and very strong root-fibres; leaves 4, produced after the flowers, spreading, lingulate, obtuse, 6–9 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. broad, with a reddish crisped cartilaginous margin; peduncle stout, compressed, 1/2 ft. long; flowers 12–20 in a centripetal umbel; pedicels 1 1/2–2 in. long; spathe-valves deltoid, shorter than the pedicels; perianth erect, bright scarlet, cut down to the ovary; segments lanceolate, but little crisped, 1 1/4 in. long, 1/4 in. broad; stamens suberect, a little longer than the perianth-segments; style suberect, a little longer than the stamens. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Tulbagh Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, MacOwan, 2994! and MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1552!

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