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Gladiolus macowanianus

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Name

Identification
Gladiolus macowanianus Klatt [family IRIDACEAE ]
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  • Gladiolus macowanianus

Flora

Entry for GLADIOLUS angustus Linn. [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 angustus Linn. [family IRIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. edit. 2, i. 53;—Hort. Cliff. 20, t. 6; Jacq. Ic. t. 252; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 602; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 589; Red. Lil. t. 344; Baker, Handb. Irid. 204.
GLADIOLUS trimaculatus Lam. [family IRIDACEAE], Encyc. ii. 727; Ill. i. 116, t. 32, fig. 3.
GLADIOLUS cordatus Thunb. [family IRIDACEAE], Fl. Cap. i. 185.
GLADIOLUS macowanianus Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. South Afric. Phil. Soc. iii. pt. 2, 199.
Information
corm globose; tunics membranous; stems simple, 2–3 ft. long; leaves 3–4, linear, flat, firm in texture, 1–2 ft. long, 1/6– 1/4 in. broad; flowers 2–6, in a very lax spike; spathe-valves green, oblong-lanceolate, acute, the outer 1 1/2–3 in. long; flowers white, with a tube 1 1/2–2 in. long, funnel-shaped in the upper third; limb 1–1 1/2 in. long; segments oblong, acute, the upper concolorous, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad, the three lower narrower, with a bright purple, spade-shaped mark on the middle; stamens reaching halfway up the limb. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Table Mountain, 1400 ft., Bolus, 2824! grassy places near Hout Bay, 500 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 284! MacOwan, 2605 (2065 ex Klatt). Stellenbosch Div.; mountains near Somerset West, MacOwan, 2680!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!

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