Entry for GLADIOLUS splendens Baker [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 splendensBaker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1876, 333;—Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 176; Handb. Irid. 219.
Information
corm not seen; stem about 2 ft. long; produced leaves ensiform, not very rigid in texture, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/2 in. broad; flowers 4–6 in a lax distichous spike, all ascending; outer spathe-valve green, lanceolate, 1 1/2–2 in. long; perianth bright scarlet; tube nearly straight, 1 1/2 in. long, funnel-shaped in the upper third; upper segments obovate, minutely cuspidate, 2 in. long, above an inch broad; 3 lower rather narrower and shorter, with a pale keel through the lower half; stamens reaching more than halfway up the limb. null
Distribution
COAST REGION George Div.; mountains near Oakhurst, Dumbleton!
