Entry for DAUBENYA aurea Lindl. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
DAUBENYA aureaLindl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Bot. Reg. t. 1813;—Kunth, Enum. iv. 301; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 394.
Information
leaves thin, rather fleshy oblong, glabrous, 4 in. long, 2 in. broad, many-ribbed; peduncle very short; capitulum globose, 3 in. diam.; outer bracts several, oblong, membranous; flowers nearly sessile, bright yellow, outer very irregular, with three subequal oblong-spathulate segments longer than the tube and three small lanceolate inner segments; stamens half as long as the outer segments; inner flowers with all the segments linear and shorter than the stamens. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Figured from a plant cultivated by Messrs. Young, of Epsom, in June, 1835.
