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Bulbine latifolia

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Identification
Bulbine latifolia (L.f.) Schult. & Schult.f. [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for BULBINE latifolia 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 latifolia Roem. et Schultes [family ASPHODELACEAE], Syst. Veg. vii. 447;—Kunth, Enum. iv. 567; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 349.
Anthericum latifolium Linn. fil. [family ANTHERICACEAE], Suppl. 202; Thunb. Prodr. 63; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 323; Jacq. Coll. iii. 249; Ic. ii. 17, t. 408.
BULBINE macrophylla Salm-Dyck [family ASPHODELACEAE], Hort. Dyck. 333; Kunth, Enum. iv. 568.
BULBINE Mettinghii Tenore [family ASPHODELACEAE], Syll. 563?
Information
acaulescent, perennial, cæspitose, with a stout rootstock of firm texture; leaves 12–20 in a dense rosette, oblong-lanceolate, thick, fleshy, glaucescent on the rounded back, a foot long, 2–3 in. broad low down, tapering gradually to a point, the outer flat, the inner concave on the face; peduncle above a foot long, ancipitous towards the base; raceme dense upwards, a foot long, 1 1/2 in. diam.; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts small, deltoid-cuspidate; perianth bright yellow, 1/3 in. long; stamens more than half as long as the perianth-segments. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1894!

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