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Hypoxis cuanzensis

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Name

Identification
Hypoxis cuanzensis Welw. ex Baker [family HYPOXIDACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Hypoxis urceolata
  • Hypoxis macrocarpa
  • Hypoxis cuanzensis

Flora

Entry for HYPOXIS cuanzensis Welw. ex Baker [family HYPOXIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 376, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
HYPOXIS cuanzensis Welw. ex Baker [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 265. —Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 111.
Information
Tuber perennial, 1 1/2–2 in. long, crowned with the bristly relics of old leaves. Produced leaves 8–10, linear, slightly hairy, rigid, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/6 in. broad. Peduncles 2–4 to a tuber, 3–4 in. long. Flowers 3–4 in a corymb; bracts linear, pilose, longer than the very short pedicels. Perianth-limb 1/4 in. long; segments yellow, the outer hairy outside. Stamens half as long as the perianth. Ovary turbinate, pilose, 1/8 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in damp ground, Welwitsch!
Notes
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium.

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