Entry for GLADIOLUS cruentus Moore [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 cruentusMoore [family IRIDACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1868, 1138;—Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 5810; Baker, Handb. Irid. 219.
Information
corm large, globose; stem 2–3 ft. long; produced leaves about 4, ensiform, dark glaucous green, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 3/4–1 in. broad; spike rather dense, distichous, 6–10 flowered; bracts very large, lanceolate, the lower sometimes 3–6 in. long; perianth bright scarlet; tube 1 1/2–2 in. long, nearly straight, funnel-shaped in the upper half; upper segments concolorous, obovate-spathulate, obscurely cuspidate, 2–2 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. broad; 3 lower about 1 1/2 in. long, 1 in. broad, with a large white blotch at the throat with small red spots; anthers lanceolate, reaching halfway up the limb. null
