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Buphane ciliaris

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Identification
Buphane ciliaris Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for BUPHANE ciliaris Herb. [family ]
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
BUPHANE ciliaris Herb. [family ], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2573;—Herb. Amaryllid. 240, t. 36, fig. 8; Kunth, Enum. v. 604; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 74.
Amaryllis ciliaris Linn. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 422; Linn. fil. Suppl. 195.
Hæmanthus ciliaris Linn. [family ], Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 413; Thunb. Prodr. 59; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 299; Jacq. Fragm. t. 40, fig. 1 & t. 41, fig. 2.
Brunsvigia ciliaris Gawl. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Bot. Reg. sub t. 193; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1153.
Coburgia ciliaris Herb. [family ], in Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. 181.
Crossyne ciliaris Salisb. [family ], Gen. 117.
Information
bulb globose, 3–4 in. diam.; tunics brown, truncate at the top; leaves 4–6, spreading, lingulate, rigidly coriaceous, 1/2–1 ft. long, 2–4 in. broad, closely ribbed, spotted with red beneath, densely ciliated with persistent, ascending, brown or stramineous flattened bristles 1/8– 1/3 in. long; peduncle solid, ancipitous, 4–6 in. long, 1/2 in. diam.; flowers 50–100 in an umbel; pedicels rigid, triquetrous, 3–4 in. long; spathe-valves deltoid, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth with a small campanulate tube; segments lanceolate, spreading or reflexing, dull purple, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; stamens shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers minute, oblong; ovary turbinate, 1/8 in. diam.; style slightly declinate; capsule turbinate, triquetrous, 1/4– 1/3 in. diam. null
Distribution
COAST REGION hills near Cape Town, Thunberg! near Tulbagh, Burchell, 1038! Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, Burchell, 7929!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Villette! Var. β, Thunberg! and a sketch by Masson in the British Museum!

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