Entry for CRINUM rautanenianum Schinz [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 rautanenianumSchinz [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 48.
Information
Bulb moderately large, globose. Leaves linear, erect, moderately firm, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, less than 1 in. broad low down, tapering gradually to a long point, denticulate on the edge. Peduncle 1 ft. or more long, moderately stout. Flowers 5 in an umbel; pedicels short; spathe-valves lanceolate, 3 in. long. Perianth-tube curved, 3–4 in. long; segments oblong, acute, ascending, pure white, as long as the tube, 1 in. broad at the middle. Filaments 2 1/2 in. long; anthers linear.
