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Hypoxis rigidula

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Identification
Hypoxis rigidula Baker [family HYPOXIDACEAE ]
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Entry for HYPOXIS rigidula 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 rigidula Baker [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 116
Information
corm oblong, 1–1 1/2 in. diam.; leaves 5–6, linear, rigidly coriaceous, strongly ribbed, erect, shortly pilose, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. broad; peduncles 2–3; sometimes a foot long, slender, shortly pilose; flowers 3–8, racemose; pedicels all short; bracts linear; perianth-limb 5/8– 3/4 in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, yellow, the outer densely pilose outside; anthers versatile, 1/8 in. long; filaments short; ovary turbinate, 1/4 in. long, clothed with dense, long, whitish, bristly hairs; stigmas concrete; capsule turbinate, densely villose, 1/4 in. long, slitting round the middle, not dividing into valves. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 1649! Albert Div., Cooper, 1763! Mooyplaats, 4500–5000 ft., Drège, 2194d!COAST REGION Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, 2194a! Bathurst Div.; between Blaauw Krans and Kaffir Drift Military Post, Burchell, 3694! Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, Baur, 904! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 3239!EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; mountains around Kokstad, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1211! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 407! near Gorton, Wood, 3433! Var. β, Natal; Tugela, Gerrard, 1826!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Cooper, 883! Basutoland, Cooper, 3241! Transvaal; Wonderfontein, Nelson, 261! Var. β, Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke, 156! Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 2300–4500 ft., Galpin, 1099!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1670!

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