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Identification
Melanthium bergii Schlecht. [family COLCHICACEAE ] Dipidax ciliata Baker [family COLCHICACEAE ] Wurmbea punctata Vinnersten & J.C.Manning [family COLCHICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Melanthium caeruleum
  • Helonias
  • Melanthium triquetrum
  • Melanthium bergii
  • Scilla
  • Dipidax ciliata
  • Anthericum
  • Melanthium ciliatum
  • Wurmbea angustifolia
  • Wurmbea punctata
  • Hypoxis

Flora

Entry for DIPIDAX ciliata Baker [family COLCHICACEAE]
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
DIPIDAX ciliata Baker [family COLCHICACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 447
Melanthium ciliatum Linn. fil. [family MELANTHIACEAE], Suppl. 213; Thunb. Prodr. 67; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 339; Schlecht. in Linnæa. i. 83; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 1544; Kunth, Enum. iv. 156.
Melanthium capense Willd. [family MELANTHIACEAE], Sp. ii. 267; Lam. Ill. t. 269.
Melanthium punctatum Mill. [family MELANTHIACEAE], Dict. viii. No. 3.
Information
corm small, subglobose; tunics brown, membranous; stem simple, 1/2–1 ft. long; leaves usually 3, ciliated with short spreading hairs, lower lanceolate, acuminate, 4–6 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad, upper much shorter, clasping the stem at the middle; spike 2–6 in. long, generally dense and many flowered; perianth 1/3– 1/2 in. long; segments whitish or tinged with red, about 1/12 in. broad; nectariferous spots and veins indistinct; anthers minute, oblong; filaments 1/6 in. long; ovary turbinate, acutely triquetrous; styles slender, 1/12 in. long; capsule 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; hills near Cape Town, Thunberg. Table Mountain, Ecklon, 508! Camp Ground, Bolus, 3700! Camps Bay, MacOwan, 2557! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 300! Paarl Div.; between Paarl and Lady Grey Railway Bridge, Drège! Tulbagh Div., Thom! near Tulbagh Waterfall, 1500 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1392! near Ceres Road, MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1563! Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 963! Swellendam, Kennedy! Riversdale Div.; near Zoetmelks River, Burchell, 6689! Var. β, Cape Div.; sea-shore and near Riet Vallei, Zeyher, 4300! Simons Bay, Wright! sand-dunes near Cape Town, Bolus, 3758! Worcester Div.? Cooper, 3204! Var. ε, near Tulbagh, Lichtenstein. Caledon, Zeyher!SOUTH AFRICA without locality; Var. α, Sonnerat. Var. β, Bergius. Var. γ, Herb. Thouin, Var. δ, Garnot. Var. ζ, Lichtenstein.

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