Entry for EUCOMIS humilis Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
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
EUCOMIS humilisBaker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Kew Bullet. 1895, 152
Information
leaves oblong, moderately firm, 1/2 ft. long, 2–3 in. broad at the middle, obtuse, undulated at the margin, narrowed to the base, tinged with purple above, much spotted with purple beneath; peduncle very short, cylindrical; raceme dense, oblong, 2–4 in. long, crowned with a dense coma of small oblong leaves with purple margins; pedicels very short; bracts large, lanceolate; perianth 1/2 in. long, greenish-white, tinged with purple; segments oblong; stamens shorter than the perianth-segments; filaments purple; anthers small, oblong; style as long as the ovary. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; summit of Tabamhlopi Mountain, 6000–7000 ft., Evans, 398!
