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Crinum variabile

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Name

Identification
Crinum variabile (Jacq.) Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
Related name
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Flora

Entry for CRINUM variabile Herb. [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
CRINUM variabile Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryllid. 268, t. 44, fig. 23;—Kunth, Enum. v. 578; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 92.
Amaryllis variabilis Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. iv. 14, t. 429; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 866.
Amaryllis revoluta Gawl. var. robustior [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Bot. Reg. t. 615.
Crinum variabile Herb. var. roseum [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 9.
Crinum crassifolium Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], App. 23.
Information
bulb ovoid, 3–4 in. diam., without any distinct neck; leaves 10–12 to a bulb, linear, green, weak in texture, glabrous, entire on the margin, the outer reaching a length of 2 feet and more, and a breadth of 2 inches; scape erect, compressed, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/2 in. thick at the base; flowers 10–12 to an umbel; pedicels 1/2–1 in. long; spathe-valves deltoid, 2–3 in. long; perianth with a curved greenish tube about 1 1/2 in. long; segments oblong, acute, 2 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/2 in. broad, tinged with red down the keel; filaments red, an inch shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers 1/2 in. long; ovary oblong, 1/2 in. long; style reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments. null
Distribution
COAST REGION British Kaffraria, Cooper, 3311!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!

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