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Gladiolus watsonius

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Identification
Gladiolus watsonius Thunb. [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ANTHOLYZA revoluta Burm. [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
ANTHOLYZA revoluta Burm. [family IRIDACEAE], Prodr. Cap. 1
Gladiolus Watsonius Thunb. [family IRIDACEAE], Diss. No. 10; Prodr. 8; Fl. Cap. i. 173; Jacq. Ic. t. 233; Bot. Mag. t. 450; Red. Lil. t. 369.
Gladiolus præcox Andr. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 38.
Gladiolus recurvus Houtt. [family IRIDACEAE], Handl. xii. 49, t. 79, fig. 1, non Linn.
Watsonia revoluta Pers. [family IRIDACEAE], Syn. i. 42.
Watsonia præcox Pers. [family IRIDACEAE], Syn. i. 42.
Homoglossum revolutum Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 161.
Homoglossum præcox Salisb. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 325.
Information
corm globose, 1 in. diam.; tunics thick, cancellate; stem slender, terete, simple, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, with 2–3 reduced leaves with long glabrous sheaths; produced leaf one, linear-subulate, 1 ft. long, firm in texture; flowers 2–4 in a very lax secund spike, bright red; spathe-valves lanceolate, green, herbaceous, 1–2 in. long; perianth-tube curved, 1 1/2–2 in. long, cylindrical in the upper half; upper segments oblong, 3/4–1 in. long; lower smaller, lanceolate, falcate; stamens much shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers 1/4 in. long; style-arms short, cuneate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Lion Mountain, Thunberg! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 289! MacOwan, 2302! near Cape Town, 50 ft., Bolus, 3729; Malmesbury Div.; between Eikenboom and Riebeeks Castle, Drège, 8448b! Albany Div.; mountain sides of Broekhuzens Poort, near Grahamstown, 2000–2500 ft., Galpin, 66!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; hills along the Hartebeest River, 2000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 3976!

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