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Chlorophytum brachystachyum

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Identification
Isotype of Chlorophytum trachycarpum Oberm. [family ANTHERICACEAE ] Verified by M.Afzal Hanid, Chlorophytum brachystachyum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S.Kativu,
Related name
  • Chlorophytum kymatodes
  • Cyperus keniensis
  • Chlorophytum brachystachyum
  • Chlorophytum trachycarpum

Flora

Entry for CHLOROPHYTUM brachystachyum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
CHLOROPHYTUM brachystachyum Baker [family ANTHERICACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1893, xiii. 710.
Information
Root-fibres cylindrical, fleshy. Leaves 6–8 to a stem, moderately firm, lanceolate, light green, glabrous, 6–8 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to the apex and sessile base, much crisped and conspicuously ciliated on the margin. Peduncle very short. Raceme dense, oblong, branched at the base; pedicels very short, the lower geminate; lower bracts lanceolate, ciliated. Perianth white, 1/4 in. long; segments oblong, reflexing from a basal cup. Stamens as long as the perianth; anthers oblong.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, Buchanan!
Notes
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in the autumn of 1893.

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