Entry for Gladiolus aureus Baker [family IRIDACEAE]
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
Gladiolus aureusBaker [family IRIDACEAE]
Information
corm small, globose; outer tunics of strong, pale brown, parallel strands; stem very slender, 1/2–1 ft. long, clothed with fine spreading hairs, bearing 2 hairy leaves near the middle, the lower with a long sheath and a narrowly linear, strongly-ribbed, erect, free tip, the other entirely sheathing; flowers 1–2, secund; outer spathe-valves oblong or lanceolate, green, 1/4– 1/2 in. long; perianth bright yellow, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long; tube funnel-shaped above the slender base, slightly curved; segments oblong, acute, subequal, rather shorter than the tube; filaments short; anthers large, linear; style much overtopping the anthers. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Foot of the Kommetjes Mountains, Cape Peninsula, alt. 300 ft., Bolus, 7951!
