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Carpolyza spiralis

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Name

Identification
Carpolyza spiralis (L'Hér.) Salisb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CARPOLYZA spiralis Salisb. [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
CARPOLYZA spiralis Salisb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Parad. t. 63;—Salisb. Gen. 119; Herb. Amaryll. 292, t. 29, fig. 9; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 23.
Hessea spiralis Berg. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Linnæa 1826, 252.
Strumaria spiralis Ait. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 213;Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1383.
Hæmanthus spiralis Thunb. [family ], Prodr. 58; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 296.
Crinum spirale Andr. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 92.
Crinum tenellum Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Ic. ii. 14, t. 363.
Amaryllis spiralis L'Herit. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Sert. Angl. 10, t. 13.
Information
bulb ovoid, 1/4– 1/3 in. diam., with a long neck; tunics brown, membranous; leaves 4–6, contemporary with the flowers, subulate, very slender, 2–4 in. long; peduncle filiform, spirally twisted, 2–4 in. long; flowers 1–3, rarely 4–6; pedicels 1–2 in. long; spathe-valves 2, small, linear, membranous; perianth pinkish-white; tube 1/8– 1/6 in. long; segments 1/2 in. long; stamens emerging but little from the perianth-tube; ovary globose, 1/12 in. diam.; capsule 1/4 in. diam. null
Distribution
COAST REGION vicinity of Cape Town; Lion Mountain, Thunberg! Burchell, 837–2! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 295! and 1385! MacOwan, 2572, Drège! Sea Point, 200 ft., Bolus, 3730!

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