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Gladiolus recurvus

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Identification
Gladiolus recurvus L. [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HESPERANTHA radiata 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
HESPERANTHA radiata Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 225;—Ker in Bot. Mag. sub 790 and 1254; Gen. Irid. 89; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, i. 84; Klatt. in Linnæa, xxxiv. 649; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 96; Handb. Irid. 152.
Ixia radiata Jacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 280; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 573; Red. Lil. t. 441.
Ixia fistulosa Andr. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 59.
Gladiolus recurvus Thunb. [family IRIDACEAE], Diss. No. 9.
Ixia recurva Vahl. [family IRIDACEAE], Enum. ii. 58.
Information
corm globose, 1/2 in. diam., with thick, rigid, brown-black tunics, lacerated from the base; leaves 5–6, the lower, narrow linear, glabrous, 4–6 in. long, the upper with long sheaths and small free points; stem slender, simple, 1–1 1/2 ft. long; flowers few or many in a long, secund spike; outer spathe-valve green, oblong-lanceolate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; perianth with a much-curved tube 1/2 in. long, and a limb 1/3– 1/2 in. long, with oblong-lanceolate segments, the inner usually white and the outer claret-red; anthers lanceolate, 1/4 in. long, with very short filaments; style-branches 1/4 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Victoria West; Karee Bergen, Burchell, 1548! near Murraysburg, 4100 ft., Tyson, 305! Somerset Div., Bowker!COAST REGION Tulbagh, Burchell, 1037! near George, Burchell, 6086! Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 966! Fish River, Gill! VAR. β, Vicinity of Cape Town, Drège! Bolus. 3769! Swellendam Div., Zeyher! Grahamstown, MacOwan! Galpin, 283!EASTERN REGION Natal; Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, 4056!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand, between Pedros Kloof and Lily Fontein, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 2638!

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