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Homeria spicata

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Identification
Homeria spicata Sweet [family IRIDACEAE ] Gynandriris simulans (Baker) R.C.Foster [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Helixyra spicata N.E.Br. [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Brown, N.E.,
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  • Gynandriris simulans
  • Helixyra spicata
  • Homeria spicata

Flora

Entry for HOMERIA elegans Sweet [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
HOMERIA elegans Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 498;—Baker, Handb. Irid. 74.
Moræa elegans Jacq. [family ], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 6, t. 12; Ker in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1103; Pers. Syn. i. 49; Ker, Gen. Irid. 33.
Sisyrinchium elegans Willd. [family IRIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. iii. 577; Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. i. 491, excl. syn.
HOMERIA spicata Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxiv. 626, in part; Ergänz. 52.
Moræa spicata Ker [family ], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1103; Bot. Mag. t. 1283; Gen. Irid. 33.
Information
corm globose, 1/2 in. diam., with thick brown tunics; produced leaf one, subbasal, linear, firm in texture, strongly ribbed, a foot or more long, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad, overtopping the stem; stem a foot or more long; clusters 1–4, on short, erect peduncles; perianth-limb broadly infundibuliform, 1–1 1/2 in. long, the outer segments fulvous, and the inner yellow, or all the six yellow, oblanceolate-oblong, with a cusp 1/3– 1/2 in. broad, the three outer with a large green or yellow-brown blotch in the middle; stamens 1/2 in. long, the linear anthers equalling the cylindrical column; ovary cylindrical-trigonous, 1/2 in. long; style-branches with two small quadrate crests; capsule clavate, 3/4 in. long, with three rigid valves. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Caledon Div., Kleinriver Kloof, 1000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 4073! on the Zwartberg near Caledon, 400 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 799!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Stanger! Mundt!

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