Entry for GLADIOLUS brevicaulis Baker [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 337, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
GLADIOLUS brevicaulisBaker [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 267. —Handb. Irid. 211; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 177.
Information
Corm globose. 1 in. diam.; tunics finely fibrous. Leaves linear, firm, glabrous; the lower 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad. Stem slender, terete, 6–8 in. long, with 1–2 reduced leaves. Spathe lax, secund, 6–9 in. long, many-flowered; outer spathe-valve oblong, green, 1/2– 3/4 in. long in the lower flowers. Perianth violet-purple, 1 in. long; tube curved, narrowly funnel-shaped; limb as long as the tube; upper segments oblong-spathulate, obtuse; 3 lower smaller, with narrower claws. Stamens a little shorter than the upper segments; anthers 1/3 in. long.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Stanleypool, Büttner, 517.Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; subtemperate region between Lopollo and Humpata, 3800–5500 ft., in damp sandy pastures, Welwitsch, 1534!
