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Identification
Bulbine narcissifolia Salm-Dyck [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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Entry for BULBINE narcissifolia Salm-Dyck [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 narcissifolia Salm-Dyck [family ASPHODELACEAE], Hort. Dyck. 334;—Kunth, Enum. iv. 567; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 347.
Information
acaulescent, perennial, with a dense tuft of cylindrical root-fibres; leaves 6–9, linear-lorate from a dilated base, thin, fleshy, glaucescent, 6–12 in. long, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad at the middle; peduncle subterete, 1–1 1/2 ft. long; raceme short, dense, 1–1 1/2 in. diam.; pedicels ascending, lower 1/2– 3/4 in. long; bracts lanceolate-deltoid, membranous, whitish, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, much exceeding the buds; perianth bright yellow, 1/3 in. long; segments oblong; capsule not seen. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1583!COAST REGION Stockenstrom Div.; Seymour, Scully, 71!EASTERN REGION Natal; Colenso, on a grassy hill, 3000 ft., Wood, 4026!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Matebe Valley, Holub, 1587! 1589!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 133!

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