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Galtonia candicans

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Name

Identification
Galtonia candicans (Baker) Decne. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for GALTONIA candicans Dcne. [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
GALTONIA candicans Dcne. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Flore des Serres, xxiii. 33;—Rev. Hort. 1882, 32.
Hyacinthus candicans Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 174; Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 425; Flore des Serres, t. 2172–3; Gard. Chron. 1871, 380; 1872, 1099; Berl. Monatschr. 1878, t. 2; Rev. Hort. 1880, 469, fig. 97.
Information
bulb large, globose; leaves 4–6, lanceolate, fleshy, flaccid, glaucescent, 2–3 ft. long, 1–2 in. broad; peduncle stout, terete, rather longer than the leaves; raceme lax, 1/2–1 ft. long; flower-pedicels cernuous at the apex, 1–2 in. long; bracts large, lanceolate; perianth pure white, 1–1 1/2 in. long; tube oblong; segments longer than the tube; stamens about 1/2 in. long; capsule as long as the perianth, erect. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Aliwal North Div.; on the Witte Bergen, 7000–8000 ft., Drège, 3529!EASTERN REGION Natal; on the Drakensberg, 6000–7000 ft., Evans, 360! sources of the Tugela River, M`Ken, 5! Allison! Olivers Hoek Pass, Wood, 3498!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; near Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 3285!

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