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Crinum tenellum

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Name

Identification
Amaryllis tenella L. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Crinum tenellum L.f. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward, Leucojum indet. Not on sheet [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ] Verified by Salisbury, Richard Anthony (né Markham),
Related name
  • Haemanthus spiralis
  • Strumaria filifolia
  • Leucojum strumosum
  • Amaryllis tenella
  • Strumaria spiralis
  • Crinum tenellum
  • Strumaria tenella
  • Strumaria not on sheet
  • Leucojum indet.

Flora

Entry for HESSEA filifolia Benth. [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
HESSEA filifolia Benth. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Gen. Plant. iii. 721;—Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 22.
Imhofia filifolia Herb. [family ], Amaryll. 290, t. 29, fig. 8; Kunth, Enum. v. 626.
Strumaria filifolia Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Ic. ii. 14, t. 361; Bot. Reg. t. 440.
Leucojum strumosum Thunb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Prodr. 58; Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 407, t. 5.
Crinum tenellum Linn. fil. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Suppl. 194.
Information
bulb globose, 1/2 in. diam., with membranous tunics produced an inch above its neck; leaves 2–5, produced after the flowers, filiform, very slender, glabrous, weak, sometimes 6–8 in. long; peduncle very slender, 3–6 in. long, not twisted spirally; flowers 4–12; pedicels slender, 1–2 in. long; perianth-limb 1/4 in. long, cut down to the base, whitish or red-purple; segments oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 3-nerved in the centre; stamens rather shorter than the perianth-segments; ovary green, globose, 1/12 in. diam.; style as long as the stamens, subulate from an ovoid base, minutely tricuspidate at the tip; capsule depresso-globose, membranous; seeds 1–2 in a cell. null
Distribution
COAST REGION near Cape Town, Thunberg! Cape sand-dunes, Bolus, 4013! Cape Flats near Rondebosch, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 294! MacOwan, 2655! Tulbagh Div.; between Tulbagh and the Drostdy, Burchell, 1030! Worcester Div., Hex River Kloof, 1000–2000 ft., Drège!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Sparrmann! Masson! Oldenburg!

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