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Eriospermum burchellii

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Name

Identification
Eriospermum burchellii Baker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE ] Eriospermum abyssinicum Baker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE ] (stored under name); Eriospermum latifolium Jacq. [family ERIOSPERMACEAE ]
Related name
  • Eriospermum latifolium
  • Eriospermum burchellii
  • Eriospermum abyssinicum
  • Eriospermum luteorubrum

Flora

Entry for ERIOSPERMUM Burchellii 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 Burchellii Baker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE]
Information
tuber oblong; leaf solitary, produced after the flowers, petiolate, 5–6 in. long, 8–10 lines broad, lanceolate, tapering to an acute apex and cuneately narrowed below the middle to an acute base, rigidly coriaceous, many nerved, glabrous; peduncle 3 in. long; raceme lax, corymbose, 5–6 in. long, 4 in. broad; lower pedicels arcuate, ascending, 4–5 in. long; bracts deltoid, minute; perianth campanulate, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, white keeled with brown; stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments lanceolate; capsule turbinate, 1/3 in. long; hair of the seeds soft, white. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal, near Ladysmith, 4000 ft., Wood, 4239!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; near the Asbestos Mountains, between Witte Water and Riet Fontein, Burchell, 2008! Transvaal; Mooi River Burke! Magalies Berg, Burke! near Johannesburg, Adlam, 4!

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