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Gladiolus cardinalis

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Name

Identification
Gladiolus cardinalis Curtis [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for GLADIOLUS cardinalis Curt. [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
GLADIOLUS cardinalis Curt. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 135;—Schneev. Ic. t. 27; Red. Lil. t. 112; Ker, Gen. Irid. 143; Baker, Handb. Irid. 219.
GLADIOLUS speciosus Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE], Top. Verz. 41, non Thunb.
Information
corm large, globose; stem 3–4 ft. long; produced leaves 4–6, ensiform, rather thin in texture, glaucous green, reaching 2 ft. or more in length, 3/4–1 in. broad; flowers 12–20 in a spike 1/2–1 ft. long, all more or less ascending; spathe-valves green, thin in texture, lanceolate, acute, 1 1/2–3 in. long; perianth bright scarlet; tube nearly straight, 1 1/2 in. long, funnel-shaped in the upper half; upper segments oblong-spathulate, acute, concolorous, 2 in. long, 3/4–1 in. broad; 3 lower shorter and narrower, conspicuously mottled with white at the throat; stamens reaching more than halfway up the limb; anthers lanceolate, 1/3 the length of the filaments. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drège!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson!

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