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Gladiolus melleri

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Identification
Gladiolus melleri Baker [family IRIDACEAE ]
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  • Gladiolus melleri

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Entry for GLADIOLUS Melleri 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 Melleri Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1876, 334. —Handb. Irid. 212.
Information
Corm medium-sized, globose. Produced leaf rigid, linear, strongly ribbed, 1 ft. long, 1/4 in. broad. Stem terete, moderately stout, bearing several reduced leaves with short free linear points. Spikes very lax, not secund, 6–12-flowered; outer spathe-valve green, lanceolate, acuminate, 1–1 1/2 in. long. Perianth red, 18–21 lin. long, suberect; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, shorter than the limb; upper segments oblong-cuneate, obtuse, 1 in. long; 3 lower as broad, but rather shorter, also obtuse. Stamens distinctly shorter than the upper segments. Capsule clavate-oblong, 3/4–1 in. long.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Makua; Namuli Hills, Last!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Manganja Hills, Meller! Waller! at the foot of Mpimbe Hill, 3000 ft., Kirk! Mount Mlanje, Whyte! Shibisa (Chikwawa) to Tshinmuze, 2000–4000 ft., Kirk! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1333!Matabeleland Mozamb. Dist. Oates!

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