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Gladiolus crassifolius

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Identification
Gladiolus crassifolius Baker [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for GLADIOLUS crassifolius Baker [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 crassifolius Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1876, 334;—Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 175; Handb. Irid. 215.
Information
corm large, globose; tunics of fine matted fibres; leaves about 6 in a subbasal distichous rosette, ensiform, rigid in texture, glabrous, with very thick stramineous ribs, sometimes 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; stem simple, 2–3 ft. long including the inflorescence; flowers bright red, very numerous, in a spike 3/4–1 ft. long; spathe-valves oblong-cuspidate or oblong-lanceolate, 1/2–1 in. long, sometimes brown down to the very base at the flowering time; perianth about an inch long; tube curved, funnel-shaped, 1/3 in. long; three upper segments obovate, obtuse, 1/4 in. broad, 1/2 in. long; three lower obovate, unguiculate, 1/6 in. broad; stamens reaching nearly to the tip of the perianth-segments. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Coast-land, Sutherland! near Tugela, 3000–4000 ft., Wood, 4407! Allison! Polela, Wood, 4713! near Camperdown, Wood, 3175! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 561! 595! Griqualand East; near Kokstad, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1350! Pondoland, Sutherland!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Pretoria Div.; Apies Poort, Rehmann, 4031! Middleburg Div.; Botshabelo Mission station, Nelson, 143! Orange Free State; near Harrismith, Wood, 4825! and without precise locality, Cooper, 3185! 3199!

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