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Empodium plicatum

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Name

Identification
Empodium plicatum (Thunb.) Garside [family HYPOXIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Empodium plicatum

Flora

Entry for CURCULIGO plicata Ait. [family HYPOXIDACEAE]
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
CURCULIGO plicata Ait. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 253;—Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 755; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 122.
Hypoxis plicata Linn. fil. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Suppl. 197; Thunb. Prodr. 60.
Fabricia plicata Thunb. [family MYRTACEAE], in Fabric. Reise 29.
Gethyllis plicata Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. t. 80.
Hypoxia luzulæfolia D.C. [family ], in Red. Lil. t. 260.
Empodium plicatum Salisb. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Gen. 43.
Forbesia plicata Eckl. [family ], Top. Verz. 4.
Forbesia angustifolia Eckl. [family ], Top. Verz. 4.
Information
corm depresso-globose, 1/2– 3/4 in. diam.; outer tunics of brown reticulated fibres, crowned with bristles; produced leaves 2–6 to a corm, linear, weak, glabrous, 3–9 in. long; peduncles 1–3 to a corm, hidden like the ovary in the basal sheaths; perianth-limb 1/2–1 in. long; pale green and glabrous outside, yellow within; segments acute, laxly 5–7-nerved; anthers linear, obtuse, 1/3 in. long; ovary with a filiform, green, glabrous beak 2–6 in. long; capsule oblong, rostrate, indehiscent, narrowed into a persistent beak. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; shady places at the foot of Bosch Berg near Somerset East, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1874! near Somerset East, Bolus, 336! Var. β, Somerset Div., Miss Bowker! near Hopetown, Mrs. Barber!COAST REGION hills near Cape Town, Thunberg! Pappe! Burchell, 8441! Uniondale Div.; on a rocky hill near Groot River in Lange Kloof, Burchell, 4979! Stockenstrom, Scully, 198!EASTERN REGION Natal; Klip River, 3500–4500 ft., Sutherland! Var. β, Inanda, Wood, 273!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Sieber, 124! Var. γ, Zeyher, 1664!

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