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Gloriosa virescens

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Name

Identification
Gloriosa virescens Lindl. [family COLCHICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Gloriosa virescens

Flora

Entry for GLORIOSA virescens Lindl. [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 virescens Lindl. [family COLCHICACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 2539;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 458.
Methonica superba Lam. var. β [family ], Encyc. iv. 133.
Methonica virescens Kunth [family ], Enum. iv. 277; Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4938.
Methonica virescens var. Plantii [family ], Flore des Serres, t. 865.
Methonica petersiana Klotzsch [family ], in Peters' Reise Mossamb. Bot. t. 54–55.
Methonica platyphylla Klotzsch [family ], in Peters' Reise Mossamb. Bot. t. 54–55.
Information
stems slender, widely scandent when well developed; leaves generally ovate with a cirrhiferous apex, central 2–4-nate, upper scattered; flowers few in a corymb at the end of the branches; peduncles long, slender, ebracteate, cernuous at the tip; perianth reflexing, generally bright red or yellow, 1 1/2–2 in. long; segments oblanceolate, acute, unguiculate, not crisped, 1/2 in. broad at the middle; stamens much shorter than the perianth-segments; style slender, about an inch long. null
Range
Also Tropical Africa.
Distribution
COAST REGION sand-hills of Lower Albany, Bowker! King Williamstown Div.; Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton!EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 254! Natal; near Durban, Wood, 1589! and without precise locality, Plant, 19! Gerrard, 736!

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