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Drimiopsis barteri

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Name

Identification
Drimiopsis seretii De Wild. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Drimiopsis barteri Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Drimiopsis seretii
  • Drimiopsis aroidastrum
  • Drimiopsis barteri
Common name
  • Barter’s squill (Morton)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for DRIMIOPSIS barteri Bak. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
DRIMIOPSIS barteri Bak. [family HYACINTHACEAE], (1870). Fig. 36.
Information
Leaves erect or ascending, linear-lanceolate, up to 20 x 2 cm or more, sometimes spotted. Inflorescence a dense spike-like raceme; peduncle to c. 15 cm long; pedicels c. 0.5 mm long. Tepals c. 2.5–3.5 mm long, greenish-white, all erect. Filaments triangular. Ovary subglobose; style c. 1 mm long, deciduous. Capsule subglobose-obovoid, 3-angled, c. 4 mm long. Seeds c. 3 mm long.
Range
S1–3 tropical Africa westwards to Ghana and Nigeria.
Altitude range
15–300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & Warfa 4493; Tardelli 56; Thulin, Hedrén & Dahir 7207.

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