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Cyrtanthus angustifolius

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Cyrtanthus angustifolius
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Entry for CYRTANTHUS angustifolius Ait. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
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Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
CYRTANTHUS angustifolius Ait. [family ], Hort. Kew. i. 414;—Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 271; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 368; Red. Lit. t. 388; Herb. Amaryllid. 129; Kunth, Enum. v. 538; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 57.
Crinum angustifolium Linn. fil. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Suppl. 195; Thunb. Prodr. 59; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 300.
Amaryllis cylindracea L'Herit. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Sert. Angl. 15.
Timmia angustifolia Gmel. [family ], Syst. Nat. ii. 538.
Monella angustifolia Herb. [family ], App. 29.
Eusipho angustifolius Salisb. [family ], Gen. 139.
Information
bulb ovoid, 1 1/2–2 in. diam.; tunics brown, membranous; leaves 2–3, usually contemporary with the flowers, linear, flaccid, green, straight, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad at the middle; peduncle terete, 1–1 1/2 ft. long; flowers 4–10 in an umbel, bright red, inodorous; pedicels slender, ascending, 1–1 1/2 in. long; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, greenish, 1 1/2–2 in. long; perianth 1 1/2–2 in. long; tube curved, dilated gradually from the base to a throat 1/6 in. diam.; segments oblong, patent, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; stamens exserted from the perianth-tube; filaments 1/8– 1/4 in. long; anthers oblong, yellow; ovary oblong, 1/8– 1/6 in. diam.; style sometimes protruded beyond the perianth-segments; stigma tricuspidate. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Cave Mountain near Graaff Reinet, 3800 ft., Bolus, 179!COAST REGION near Kasteel Poort on Table Mountain, 2500 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 502! King Williamstown Div., near Perie Mountains, Tidmarsh, 528! Queenstown Div, Cooper, 3272! Var. β, British Kaffraria, Cooper, 1805! Var. γ, Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drège, 1520! Bathurst Div.; between Blauw Krans and the source of Kasuga River, Burchell, 3903!EASTERN REGION Natal; Pietermaritzburg, 2000–3000 ft., Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 469! Var. β, Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 532! Griqualand East, near Kokstad, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1555! Natal; Mooi River Valley, 2000–3000 ft., Sutherland! Var. γ, Natal; Pietermaritzburg, 2000–3000 ft., Sutherland!KALAHARI REGION Basutoland, Cooper, 3224! Transvaal, Sanderson!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Masson! Oldenburg!

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