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Ferraria undulata

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Identification
Ferraria undulata L. [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for FERRARIA undulata Linn. [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 undulata Linn. [family IRIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. 1353;—Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 144; Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 63; Cavan. Diss. vi. 343; Ic. t. 190, fig. 1; Red. Lil. t. 28; Ker, Gen. Irid. 28; Baker, Handb. Irid. 73.
Moræa undulata Thunb. [family ], Diss. No. 21.
FERRARIA punctata Pers. [family IRIDACEAE], Syn. i. 50.
Flos indicus Ferr. [family ], Cult. 170, t. 173.
Gladiolus indicus Moris. [family IRIDACEAE], Hist. ii. 344, s. 4, t. 4, fig 7.—Barrel. Ic. 1216; Rudb. Elys. ii. 49. fig 9; Miller Ic. 187, t. 280.
Information
stem stout, erect, sometimes above a foot long; basal leaves ensiform, above a foot long, thinner in texture, more finely veined than in F. antherosa, flat, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad above the dilated clasping base; upper passing gradually into the ovate-amplexicaul bracts, which are scariose in texture, 1 1/2–2 in. long, with a white margin; spathes ventricose, 1 1/2–2 in. long, 2–3-flowered; perianth dull purple, segments with a claw not more than half as long as the lamina, which in the outer ones is deltoid, 1/2 in. broad, in the inner 1/3 in. broad; stamens and styles 1/2 in. long; anthers oblong, 1/2 in. long; cells not diverging; ovary cylindrical, 1 1/2 in. long, narrowed to the apex. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clauwilliam Div., Between Lange Kloof and Heeren Logement Berg, Drège! Piquetberg, Drège! vicinity of Cape Town, Thunberg! Mossel Bay Div., Rogers! Burchell, 6196!
Notes
Introduced into the Dutch gardens about 1640. Lapeyrousia macrochlamys, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 338, proves to be this plant.

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