Entry for FERRARIA divaricata Sweet [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
FERRARIA divaricataSweet [family IRIDACEAE], Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 192;—Loudon, Ornam. Bulbs, tab. v., fig. 3; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 106; Handb. Irid. 73.
Information
stem flexuose, attaining a height of 1 1/2 ft.; produced leaves firm in texture, ensiform, glaucous, strongly ribbed; upper bract-like leaves, firm in texture, ovate-amplexicaul, acute, 2 in. long; spathes cylindrical, 2 in. long, 3–4-flowered; perianth dull brownish purple, 2 in. diam. when expanded, the segments 1 1/2 in. long, with a claw nearly as long as the blade, the three outer rhomboid, 1/2 in. broad, the three inner narrow; ovary rostrate; filaments as long as the claw of the segments, united in a tube nearly to the top; anther cells divaricated. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Known only from the figure cited, which was drawn from a plant that flowered in Mr. Colvill's nursery in 1838, sent from the Cape by Mr. Synnot.
