Entry for GLADIOLUS purpureo-auratus Hook. fil. [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 purpureo-auratusHook. fil. [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5944;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 175; Handb. Irid. 216.
Information
corm large, globose; tunics of parallel strands of matted fibres; leaves ensiform, glabrous, rigid in texture, much shorter than the stem; stem 3 ft. long including the inflorescence; flowers 10–15 in a lax secund spike a foot long; spathe-valves green, oblong-lanceolate, 1–1 1/2 in. long; perianth primrose-yellow; tube much curved, funnel-shaped, under an inch long; upper segments plain, obovate-spathulate; 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, 3/4 in. broad; lower obovate-unguiculate, the two inner with a spade-shaped red-brown blotch at the throat; stamens reaching halfway up the limb. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; upper part of Tugela River, Allison.
Notes
Introduced into cultivation by Mr. Bull. Perhaps only a colour-variety of G. Papilio.
