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Eriospermum bellendeni

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Identification
Eriospermum bellendeni Sweet [family ERIOSPERMACEAE ]
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  • Eriospermum bellendeni

Flora

Entry for ERIOSPERMUM Bellendeni Sweet [family ERIOSPERMACEAE]
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
ERIOSPERMUM Bellendeni Sweet [family ERIOSPERMACEAE], Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 529, name only;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 265.
ERIOSPERMUM latifolium Ker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 1382, non Jacq.
Information
tuber large, globose, with many rounded lobes, a brown skin and copious wiry root-fibres; leaf solitary, produced after the flowers, cordate-ovate, glabrous, shortly petioled, 3–4 in. long; peduncle stiffly erect, a foot long; raceme dense, cylindrical, 3–4 in. long in flower, under an inch in diameter; pedicels ascending, 1/8– 1/4 in. long; bracts very minute; perianth campanulate, 1/6 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, with a broad green or brown keel; stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments lanceolate; capsule turbinate, 1/4 in. diam.; hair of seeds soft, brownish. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Cave Mountain, near Graaff Reinet, 4400 ft., Bolus, 517! near Somerset East, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1888!COAST REGION Uitenhage, Ecklon and Zeyher, 739! near Port Elizabeth, Zeyher, 4281!EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 278!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; between Griqua Town and Witte Water, Burchell, 1995! Transvaal; Lomatie Valley, near Barberton, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1052!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson!

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