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Gethyllis ciliaris

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Name

Identification
Gethyllis ciliaris (Thunb.) Thunb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for GETHYLLIS ciliaris Linn. fil. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
GETHYLLIS ciliaris Linn. fil. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Suppl. 198;—Thunb. Diss. 15; Prodr. 59; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 302; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 41, t. 79; Herb. Amaryllid. 185; Kunth, Enum. v. 696; Baker in Journ. Bot. 1885, 227; Handb. Amaryllid. 25.
Papiria ciliaris Thunb. [family ], in Act. Lund. i. 2, 111.
GETHYLLIS polyanthera Solander [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], MSS.
Information
bulb globose, 1 1/2 in. diam., with the tunics produced beyond its apex in a cylindrical sheath 4–5 in. long; leaves 20 or more, produced after the flowers, linear, spirally twisted, conspicuously ciliated; perianth-tube 2–3 in. long; limb whitish, 1/2 in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad; anthers numerous, linear, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; filaments very short, confluent; style straight, not longer than the stamens; fruit clavate, yellow, 2–3 in. long, above 1/2 in. diam. null
Distribution
COAST REGION near Cape Town, in sandy places, Thunberg!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson!
Notes
Jacquin describes this species as having 6 filaments, with 3 anthers to each. There is a single flower in Thunberg's herbarium marked G. cuspidata, with 6 filaments, with 2 anthers to about two of them, and one only to the others, and the same plant or a near ally is in Herb. Bolus, No. 4383, gathered in Basutoland in 1880. Solander's full original description will be found in a paper by Mr. Britten in Journ. Bot. 1884, p. 148.

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