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Gladiolus pilosus

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Identification
Isotype of Gladiolus pilosus Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Gladiolus villosus
  • Gladiolus parvulus
  • Gladiolus pugioniformis
  • Gladiolus pilosus
  • Gladiolus hirsutus
  • Gladiolus punctulatus
  • Gladiolus pubescens

Flora

Entry for GLADIOLUS villosus Ker [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 villosus Ker [family IRIDACEAE], Gen. Irid. 133;—Baker, Handb. Irid. 210.
GLADIOLUS hirsutus Ker var. [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 823.
GLADIOLUS villosiusculus Soland. [family IRIDACEAE], MSS.
GLADIOLUS laccatus Thunb. [family IRIDACEAE], Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 45, excl. syn.
GLADIOLUS pilosus Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE], Top. Verz. 38; Klatt in Linnæa xxxii. 709.
GLADIOLUS puniceus Lam. [family IRIDACEAE], Encyc. ii. 727?
GLADIOLUS Lamarcki Roem. et Schult. [family IRIDACEAE], Syst. Veg. i. 445.
Information
corm globose; tunics of strong, matted, wiry fibres; flowering-stem simple, 1–2 ft. long; sheaths conspicuously hairy, the lowest without any blade; the two upper with a produced linear blade of thick, rigid texture, 1/2–1 ft. long; flowers 3–4 in a lax secund spike, bright red or lilac; outer spathe-valve oblong-lanceolate, green, 1/2–1 in. long; perianth with a curved tube, 3/4–1 in. long, broadly funnel-shaped in the upper half; limb as long as the tube; segments obscurely cuspidate; upper obovate, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad; lower oblong, unguiculate; stamens reaching halfway up the limb. null
Distribution
COAST REGION sandy places near Cape Town and Wynberg below 100 ft., Bolus, 4724! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 288! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drège, 8433b! Drakenstein Mountains, Drège, 8433a! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1667! Caledon Div., Zeyher, 3983!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Masson! Auge!

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