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Gladiolus maculatus

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Identification
Gladiolus maculatus Sweet [family IRIDACEAE ]
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  • Gladiolus maculatus

Flora

Entry for GLADIOLUS recurvus 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 recurvus Linn. [family IRIDACEAE], Mant. 28;—Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 578, non Thunb.; Baker, Handb. Irid. 203.
GLADIOLUS punctatus Jacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 247.
GLADIOLUS tristis Thunb. var. punctatus [family IRIDACEAE], Diss. No. 8.
GLADIOLUS carinatus Ait. [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 64.
GLADIOLUS ringens Andr. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Rep. tt. 27 and 227; Red. Lil. t. 123.
GLADIOLUS odorus Salisb. [family IRIDACEAE], Prodr. 40.
GLADIOLUS violaceus Pers. [family IRIDACEAE], Syn. i. 43.
Watsonia recurva Pers. [family IRIDACEAE], Syn. i. 43.
GLADIOLUS breynianus Ker [family IRIDACEAE], Gen. Irid. 135.
GLADIOLUS maculatus Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Brit. edit. 1, 397; Klatt in Linnæa xxxii. 708.
Information
corm globose, 3/4–1 in. diam.; tunics of parallel wiry fibres; stems slender, simple, 1–2 ft. long; leaves 3, firm in texture, terete, strongly ribbed, the lowest about a foot long; flowers very fragrant, 2–6, in a very lax secund spike; outer spathe-valve green, lanceolate, 1 1/2–2 in. long; perianth-tube curved, 1 1/2–2 in. long, clavate in the upper third; limb 1–1 1/4 in. long, yellowish-white, much flushed with dark lilac; segments oblong, acute, 1/2 in. broad; stamens reaching more than halfway up the limb; capsule oblong, membranous, 1–1 1/4 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION near Cape Town, Bolus, 4591! Thunberg! Niven! Cape Flats, near Diep River, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 286! Camps Bay, MacOwan, 2558! Devils Mountain, 500 ft., Bolus, 4023! Lion Mountain, 200–500 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 283! MacOwan, 2564! foot of Table Mountain, Pappe! between Cape Town and Simons Bay; Burchell, 8559! Stellenbosch, Zeyher! Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 2500–4800 ft., MacOwan, 321! Albany Div.; mountain slopes around Grahamstown, 2000–2500 ft., Galpin, 196!EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; Zuurberg Range, near Kokstad, 4800 ft., Tyson, 1874!

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