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Eriospermum natalense

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Identification
Eriospermum natalense Baker [family LILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Eriospermum platyphyllum Baker [family LILIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Eriospermum cooperi
  • Eriospermum natalense
  • Eriospermum platyphyllum

Flora

Entry for ERIOSPERMUM natalense 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 natalense Baker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE]
Information
rootstock a large tuber; leaf solitary, produced after the flowers; blade cordate-ovate, membranous, hairy, 3–4 in. long and broad; petiole rather longer than the blade, densely pilose; peduncle a foot or more long; raceme lax, 1/2 ft. long in flower, a foot in fruit, 2 in. diam.; pedicels erecto-patent, an inch long; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth broadly campanulate, 1/6 in. long; segments broad, oblong, obtuse; outer all brown; inner white with a brown keel; stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments lanceolate; capsule globose, 1/4 in. diam.; seeds densely coated with whitish-brown hairs. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; near Fort Donald, 3500 ft., Tyson, 1667! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1205! Natal; around Durban, 120 ft., Wood, 107! MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1559! Umgeni, Rehmann, 8562! Inanda, Wood, 256!
Notes
Closely allied to E. lanuginosum, Jacq.

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