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Gladiolus hollandii

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Identification
Gladiolus hollandii L.Bolus [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Entry for Gladiolus hollandii L. Bolus [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 4, (1993) Author: P. Goldblatt
Names
Gladiolus hollandii L. Bolus [family IRIDACEAE], in J. Bot. 69: 261 (1931). — G.J. Lewis et al., J. S. African Bot., Suppl. 10: 56 (1972). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Gladiolus varius var. elatus F. Bolus [family IRIDACEAE], in Ann. Bolus Herb. 2: 104 (1917); I. Verd. in Fl. Pl. S. Africa 20: t. 791 (1940). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Information
Plants 75–120 cm high, usually growing in small clumps. Corms c. 30 mm in diameter; tunics of coarse brown fibres. Foliage leaves 6–8, the lower 4–5 basal, reaching to the base or middle of the spike, 12–22 mm wide, broadly to narrowly lanceolate, the margins slightly thickened, the midribs less so, upper leaves smaller than the basal and mostly sheathing. Stem erect, occasionally 1-branched. Spike 20–40-flowered; bracts green at anthesis, soon turning brown, 17–30 mm long, acuminate to setaceous. Flowers white with red to pink speckles and lines, the tube dark-red; perianth tube 18–25 mm long, obliquely infundibuliform, slender below, expanded apically; tepals subequal, 20–25 mm long, the uppermost slightly larger and ascending, the lower curving down and outward. Filaments 15–18 mm long, exserted c. 10 mm; anthers c. 7 mm long. Style dividing near the anther apices, style branches c. 2.5 mm long. Capsules 1–2 cm long, obovate.
Habitat
In stony grassy slopes
Range
Local in southern Mozambique
Altitude range
at altitudes of about 800 m
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800
Distribution
Mozambique M Libombo Mts., 6–9 km from Goba on the way to Fonte dos Libombos, 31.iii.1945, Estêves de Sousa 122 (PRE).
Distribution (external)
Swaziland
South Africa (Transvaal)
Notes
Flowering in February to April.

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