Entry for HYPOXIS costata 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 costataBaker [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 119
Information
corm globose, 1 1/2–2 in. diam.; leaves 5–6, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, conspicuously and closely ribbed, 5–6 in. long at the flowering time, 1–1 1/2 in. broad at the middle, densely ciliated with long hairs on the margins and keel beneath, otherwise glabrous; peduncles 1–2, as long as the leaves, densely hairy; flowers few, racemose; lower pedicels very short; bracts linear, villose; perianth-limb 1/2– 3/4 in. long, the outer segments densely hairy on the back; anthers lanceolate, 1/4 in. long; filaments short; ovary obconic, densely hairy, 1/4 in. long; stigmas concrete. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 879!
