Entry for GLADIOLUS floribundus Jacq. [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 floribundusJacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 254),—Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 610; Gen. Irid. 143; Baker, Handb. Irid. 218.
GLADIOLUS grandiflorusAndr. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 118.
Information
corm globose; tunics of matted fibres; produced leaves 3–4, ensiform, 1–2 ft. long; stems 1 1/2–2 ft. or more long including the inflorescence, branched when at all luxuriant; flowers white with a pink tinge, 4–12 in a very lax distichous spike, all ascending; outer spathe-valve oblong-lanceolate, 1 1/2–2 in. long; perianth-tube nearly straight, 1 1/2–2 in. long, funnel-shaped in the upper third; segments as long as the tube, obovate-spathulate, deltoid at the tip, the upper 3/4–1 in. broad; stamens reaching 1/3 or 1/2-way up the limb. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; near Van Stadens River, Bolus, 1633! MacOwan, 2062! near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4261.
Notes
Scarcely more than a variety of G. blandus, differing mainly from G. excelsus by its more obovate perianth-segments.
