Entry for GLADIOLUS laxiflorus Baker [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 337, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
GLADIOLUS laxiflorusBaker [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 268. —Handb. Irid. 211; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 177.
Information
Corm globose, 1/2– 3/4 in. diam.; tunics brown, membranous. Leaves linear, rigid, glabrous, falcate, 6–15 in. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad, with thickened stramineous midrib and edges. Stem 1 ft. long, simple or forked. Spikes very lax, few-flowered, not secund; outer spathe-valve green, oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 1/2– 3/4 in. long in the lower flowers. Perianth light rose-purple, 1 1/2 in. long; tube curved, broadly funnel-shaped, 1/2 in. long; upper segments oblong, obtuse, twice as long as the tube; 3 lower scarcely different. Stamens rather shorter than the segments. Capsule obovoid-oblong, 3/4 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; grassy swamps near the Lopollo Brook, Welwitsch, 1536!
