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Gloriosa superba

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Name

Identification
Gloriosa superba L. [family LILIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gloriosa superba
Common name
  • bavdi tévédi (JB) kanéhi (JB) (SENEGAL, PUI.AAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • lis grimpant; lis de Pobèguin., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • atandi bihil (JB) atandi bihil kuta (JB) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ng̃obop (JB) ‘ (SENEGAL, KONYAGI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • sémingolo = hatchet of the lion; in allusion to the shape of the tube (SENEGAL, LEBOU’), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • tititãmba (JB) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Guinea)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • gloriosa; gloriosa lily; climbing lily; methonica; African honeysuckle (Accra, Dalziel fide Irvine)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for GLORIOSA superba Linn. [family COLCHICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
GLORIOSA superba Linn. [family COLCHICACEAE], Sp. Plant. 305;—Bot. Reg. t. 77; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 129; Reich. Fl. Exot. t. 51; Wight, Ic. t. 2047; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 457.
Methonica superba Lam. [family ], Encyc. iv. 133; Ill. t. 247; Red. Lil. t. 26; Kunth, Enum. iv. 276.
Information
stems slender, widely scandent; leaves membranous, sessile, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with a cirrhiferous tip, central opposite or ternate, upper ovate, alternate; flowers few in a lax terminal corymb; peduncles cernuous at the apex, 3–6 in. long, ebracteate; perianth about 2 in. long; segments oblanceolate, acute, unguiculate, bright red or yellow, reflexing, much crisped, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad; stamens more than half as long as the perianth-segments; anthers 1/4 in. long; style horizontal, 1 1/2–2 in. long. null
Range
Also Tropical Africa and Tropical Asia.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Barberton, 2500–3000 ft., Galpin, 760! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5812! near Rhenoster Poort, Nelson, 537!

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