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Cyrtanthus odorus

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Identification
Cyrtanthus odorus Ker Gawl. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CYRTANTHUS odorus Gawl. [family ]
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
CYRTANTHUS odorus Gawl. [family ], in Bot. Reg. t. 503;—Herb. Amaryllid. 129; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 895; Kunth, Enum. v. 539; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 56.
Monella odora Herb. [family ], App. 29.
Eusipho odora Salisb. [family ], Gen. 139.
Information
bulb ovoid, brown, 1 1/2 in. diam.; leaves 2–3, linear, as long as the peduncle, straight, green, 1/12 in. broad; peduncle 1/2–1 ft. long; flowers 4–10 in an umbel, drooping, bright red, fragrant; pedicels slender, ascending, 1–1 1/2 in. long; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, greenish, 1 1/2–2 in. long; perianth 2–2 1/4 in. long; tube curved, slender, dilated gradually from the base to a throat 1/8 in. diam.; segments linear-oblong, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; stamens exserted from the perianth-tube; filaments 1/8– 1/6 in. long; anthers oblong, yellow; ovary oblong, 1/8 in. diam.; style sometimes protruded beyond the tip of the perianth-segments; stigma tricuspidate. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; near Pietermaritzburg, Krauss, 266! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 548!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Villette!

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