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Eriospermum brevipes

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Name

Identification
Eriospermum albanense Poelln. [family ERIOSPERMACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eriospermum brevipes Baker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Eriospermum brevipes
  • Eriospermum bellendeni
  • Eriospermum albanense
  • Eriospermum lanceaefolium

Flora

Entry for ERIOSPERMUM brevipes Baker [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 brevipes Baker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 263;—Gard. Chron. 1880, xiv. 231.
Information
tuber as large as a potato, with a whitish epidermis; leaves solitary, produced after the flowers, cordate-ovate, bright green, 3–4 in. long, glabrous on the face when mature, hairy on the back; petiole longer than the blade; peduncle slender, 1–2 ft. long; raceme dense, cylindrical, 6–9 in. long, under an inch in diameter; pedicels 1/8– 1/4 in. long, erecto-patent; bracts lanceolate-deltoid; perianth campanulate, 1/6 in. long; segments oblong, white keeled with green; stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments white, lanceolate; capsule globose, 1/6 in. diam.; hair of seeds brownish white. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div., Bowker!COAST REGION Humansdorp Div.; between Galgebosch and Melk River, Burchell, 4779! Algoa Bay, Cooper! British Kaffraria; sand-flats near the Bushman River, 500 ft., Baur, 1029! and without precise locality, Mrs. Hutton.

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