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Ferraria candelabrum

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Ferraria candelabrum (Baker) Rendle [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Peter Goldblatt, Ferraria glutinosa (Baker) Rendle [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by M.P. Vos, Moraea candelabrum Baker [family IRIDACEAE ]
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  • Ferraria candelabrum
  • Ferraria glutinosa
  • Moraea candelabrum

Flora

Entry for Ferraria glutinosa Baker Rendle [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 4, (1993) Author: P. Goldblatt
Names
Moraea kitambensis Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in F.T.A. 7: 575 (1898). Type from Angola.
Ferraria candelabrum Baker Rendle [family IRIDACEAE], in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. 2: 27 (1899).
Ferraria andongensis Baker Rendle [family IRIDACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 27 (1899).
Ferraria viscaria Schinz [family IRIDACEAE], in Mem. Herb. Boissier, No. 10: 77 (1900). Type from Namibia.
Moraea malangensis Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2. 1: 862 (1901). Type from Angola.
Ferraria randii Rendle Rendle [family IRIDACEAE], in J, Bot. 43: 54 (1905). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 5: 330 (1916).
Ferraria hirschbergii L. Bolus [family IRIDACEAE], in S. African Gard. 22: 57 & 59 (1932). Type from Zaire.
Moraea andongensis Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, Bot. 1: 271 (1878). Type from Angola.
Ferraria welwitschii Baker [family IRIDACEAE], Handb. Irid.: 74 (1892); in F.T.A. 7: 344 (1898). — Rendle, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 27 (1899). Type from Angola.
Ferraria bechuanica Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in F.T.A. 7: 344 (1898). — N.E. Br. in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1909: 142 (1909). Type: Botswana, Ngamiland, Kalahari Desert near Mamunwe, Lugard 237 (K, holotype).
Moraea randii Rendle [family IRIDACEAE], in J. Bot. 36: 144 (1898). Type: Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, i.1898, Rand 223 (BM, holotype; BR).
Moraea aurantiaca Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in F.T.A. 7: 575 (1898). Type from Angola.
Ferraria glutinosa Baker Rendle [family IRIDACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 27 (1899). — Carter in Kew Bull. 17:317 (1963). — Sölch in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 155: 4 (1969). — Geerinck in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 105: 5 (1972). -de Vos in J. S. African Bot. 45: 329 (1979). TAB. 3. Type from Angola.
Moraea glutinosa Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, Bot. 1: 271 (1878); Handb. Irid.: 55 (1892); in F.T.A. 7: 342 (1898). — Klatt in T. Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 150 (1895). Type as above.
Moraea spithamaea Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, Bot. 1: 271 (1878); Handb. Irid.: 55 (1892); in F.T.A 7: 341 (1898). Type from Angola.
Moraea candelabrum Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, ser. 2, Bot. 1: 271 (1878); Handb. Irid.: 54 (1892); in F.T.A. 7: 342 (1898). — Engler, Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr.: 172 (1892). Type from Angola.
Information
Plants (20)40–70(90) cm high. Corm brown, 10–40 mm in diameter, 2–4 internodes in length. Foliage leaves several (sometimes short or not developed at flowering time), usually about half as long as the stems, 4–8 mm wide, linear to narrowly lanceolate, decreasing in size above. Stem laxly and often repeatedly branched, sticky below the nodes. Rhipidia several, solitary on the branches, 2–6-flowered; outer spathes 15–25(30) mm long, obtuse to acute, inner spathes 30–45(50) mm long. Flowers brown, maroon, purple or yellow, usually spotted and mottled with contrasting colour, faintly scented: tepals lanceolate, the outer 28–35 mm long, the inner 25–28 mm long. the claws forming a wide cup c. 10 mm deep and 15 mm in diameter at the rim, limbs horizontal or recurved, the margins crisped. Filaments 10–13 mm long, united in the lower 8–10 mm, anthers 5 mm long, shrinking after anthesis to 2.5 mm long. Ovary 5–7 mm long; style c. 10 mm long, the branches 4 mm long. Capsules 12–20(25) mm long, globose-obovoid.
Habitat
In savanna and grassland, mostly in sandy soils, but also in stony ground.
Distribution
Botswana N Groot Laagte (East), fossil river valley bed, 14–16.iii.1980, P.A. Smith 3176 (MO; SRGH).Zambia W Kitwe, 3.xii.1959, Fanshawe 5314 .(K; NDO).Zimbabwe N Mazowe Distr., Umvukwes, Ruorka Ranch, 17.xii.1952, Wild 3911 (MO; SRGH).Malawi N c. 10 km N of Mpherembe, 1180 m, 7.ii.1987, la Croix 957 (MO).Botswana SW 75 km N of Kang, Wild 5066 (SRGH).Botswana SE 6 km S of Tshesebe (Tsessebe), 21.i.1960, Leach & Noel 298 (K; SRGH).Zambia S Mazabuka, Ridgeway Road, 2.xii.1931, Trapnell 541 (K).Zimbabwe W Bulawayo. xii.1962, Garley 628 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Gweru, c. 29 km SSE of Kwekwe, 23.xii.1965, Biegel 720 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (N Cape Province)
Zaire (Shaba)
Angola
Namibia

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