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Crinum buphanoides

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Identification
Crinum buphanoides Welw. ex Baker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Crinum buphanoides

Flora

Entry for CRINUM buphanoides Welw. ex Baker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 376, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
CRINUM buphanoides Welw. ex Baker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1878, 195. —Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 80.
Information
Bulb 5–6 in. diam. Leaves ensiform, firm in texture, 1 1/4–1 1/2 ft. long, 2–2 1/2 in. broad at the middle, tapering gradually to the point, ciliate on the edges with minute lanceolate scales. Peduncle moderately stout, 1 ft. long. Flowers 30–40 in an umbel; spathe-valves deltoid, deciduous; pedicels 1–1 1/2 in. long. Perianth-tube erect, 3–4 in. long; segments linear, 2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/4 in. broad, white keeled with red. Filaments nearly as long as the segments; anthers linear, 1/3 in. long. Style as long as the segments.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in sandy woods, Welwitsch, 4014!

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