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Hypoxis argentea

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Identification
Hypoxis argentea Harv. ex Baker [family HYPOXIDACEAE ]
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Entry for HYPOXIS argentea Harv. ex Baker [family HYPOXIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
HYPOXIS argentea Harv. ex Baker [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 110
Information
corm ovoid, 1/2– 3/4 in. diam., with a long neck, and crowned with a dense ring of bristles; leaves 6–12, linear-subulate, firm in texture, falcate, acuminate, 4–6 in. long, 1/12 in. broad at the base, densely persistently silky all over both surfaces; peduncles 1–2, slender, densely silky; flowers often 2, corymbose; pedicels 1/2–1 in. long; bracts setaceous; perianth-limb 1/4 in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, the outer densely silky on the back; stamens half as long as the perianth-limb; anthers lanceolate, deeply sagittate; ovary clavate, silky, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; stigmas concrete; capsule turbinate, 1/4 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Var. β, Cave Mountain, 4300 ft., near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 176! near Somerset East, MacOwan, 1593b! Fish River, Burke! Orange River, Burke!COAST REGION near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4469; Var. β, near Swellendam, 500 ft., Bolus, 7468! Uitenhage, Zeyher, 950! Stockenstrom Div.; Katberg, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 8525! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 1811! Var. γ, Albany, Williamson!EASTERN REGION Var. β, Griqualand East; near Kokstad, 4700 ft., Tyson, 1095! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 480! Natal; Berea, near Durban, Wood, 101! Inanda, Wood, 191!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; plains around Pretoria, 4000 ft., Bolus, 176! Var. β, Orange Free State; Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3761! Var. γ, Orange Free State; near Seven Fontein Mission-station, Burke! Transvaal; Apies River, Burke! bank of Vaal River, Burke, 447!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, MacOwan, 50!

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