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Gladiolus abbreviatus

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Name

Identification
Gladiolus abbreviatus Andrews [family IRIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gladiolus abbreviatus

Flora

Entry for ANTHOLYZA quadrangularis Burm. [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
ANTHOLYZA quadrangularis Burm. [family IRIDACEAE], Prod. Cap. 1;—Baker, Handb. Irid. 231.
Gladiolus quadrangularis Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 567; Gen. Irid. 131.
Petamenes quadrangularis Salisb. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 324.
Anisanthus quadrangularis Klatt [family ], in Linnæa xxxii. 727.
Gladiolus abbreviatus Andr. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 166.
Antholyza abbreviata Pers. [family IRIDACEAE], Syn. i. 42.
Information
corm large, globose, stoloniferous; stem slender, terete, simple, 2–3 ft. long; leaves like those of Gladiolus tristis, superposed, narrow linear; flowers 2–4 in a very lax spike; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, herbaceous, 1 1/2–2 in. long; perianth variegated, bright red and yellow; tube curved, 2 in. long, cylindrical in the upper half, not saccate; upper segment red, lingulate, 3/4 in. long, the others much smaller, greenish, oblong or lanceolate, spreading; anthers purple, lanceolate, reaching to the tip of the upper segment. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.

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