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Drimia robusta

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Name

Identification
Drimia robusta Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for DRIMIA robusta Baker [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
DRIMIA robusta Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 190;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 421.
Information
bulb ovoid, 3–4 in. diam.; leaves 6–8, contemporary with the flowers, lorate-lanceolate, rather fleshy, flaccid, green, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad at the middle; peduncle 3–5 ft. long, very robust, 1/2– 3/4 in. diam. low down; raceme lax, cylindrical, finally 1–2 ft. long, about 2 in. diam.; pedicels spreading, about 1/2 in. long; bracts lanceolate, about as long as the pedicels; perianth dull reddish-white, 1/2– 5/8 in. long; tube short, campanulate; segments convolute; stamens nearly as long as the perianth-segments; style finally 1/2 in. long, thickened upwards, protruded beyond the tip of the perianth-segments; capsule oblong, 1/3 in. long. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; mountain sides near Clydesdale, 3000–3500 ft., Tyson, 1108! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr., 1209!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Cooper, 3288!

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