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Eriospermum proliferum

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Name

Identification
Eriospermum fasciculatum A.V.Duthie [family ERIOSPERMACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eriospermum proliferum Baker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Eriospermum proliferum
  • Eriospermum setiferum
  • Eriospermum fasciculatum

Flora

Entry for ERIOSPERMUM proliferum 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 proliferum Baker [family ERIOSPERMACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 267
ERIOSPERMUM folioliferum Gawl. [family ERIOSPERMACEAE], in Bot. Reg. t. 795; Kunth, Enum. iv. 654, non Andrews.
Information
tuber large, depresso-globose, with a brown skin; leaf produced after the flowers, solitary, obcordate, glabrous, 1/2 in. long, furnished on the face with numerous, slender, cylindrical, glabrous processes two or three times as long as the blade; peduncle 3–4 in. long; raceme lax, 2–3 in. long, 9–12-flowered; pedicels ascending, 1/4– 3/4 in. long; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth campanulate, 1/6 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, white keeled with green; stamens much shorter than the perianth; filaments lanceolate. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
There is a drawing at Kew of a plant gathered by Bowie in 1821.

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