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Hydnora triceps

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Identification
Hydnora triceps Drège & E.Mey. [family HYDNORACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HYDNORA triceps Drège & E. Meyer [family HYDNORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 485, (1912) Author: By A. W. HILL.
Names
HYDNORA triceps Drège & E. Meyer [family HYDNORACEAE], in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xvi. 2, 779, t. 59
HYDNORA africana R. Br. [family HYDNORACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 245; Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. tt. 187–188.
Information
rhizome stout, 4-angled, angles crested with obtuse tubercles; flower shortly pedunculate; perianth fleshy, 3-angled above; tube 3–4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. across, broadening above across the segments to 3–4 in. in diam., broadly clavate with impressed apex; segments 3, dilated, broadly oblong, connate above leaving apertures only near the base, margins naked; staminal column inserted near apex of the tube; anthers numerous, opening extrorsely only; stigma obscurely trilobed; ovary and fruit as in null
Distribution
WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; between Silverfontein, Koperberg and Kaus, 2000 ft., Drège; Modderfontein, Whitehead; near Ookiep, on roots of Euphorbia, Hofmeyer!

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