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Hypoxis rooperii

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Identification
Hypoxis rooperii T.Moore [family HYPOXIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HYPOXIS Rooperii Moore [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 Rooperii Moore [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Gard. Comp. 1, 65, cum icone;—Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 303; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 118.
Information
corm globose, 2–3 in. diam., crowned with a ring of bristles; leaves 12–18 to a corm, lanceolate, acuminate, 1–2 ft. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad in the lower half, moderately firm in texture, glabrous on the face when mature, shortly hairy on the back and margin; peduncles 2–6, 9–12 in. long, ancipitous, hairy upwards; flowers 4–10, racemose; lower pedicels 1/2–1 in. long; bracts linear; perianth-limb 3/4 in. long; segments oblong, yellow, the outer hairy all over the back; anthers lanceolate, 1/4 in. long; filaments shorter; ovary turbinate, 1/4 in. long, densely villose; stigmas concrete; capsule turbinate, densely villose, 1/2 in. long, circumscissile round the middle. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Albany Div.; near Bushman River, below 1000 ft., Drège, 8529! Stockenstrom, Scully, 117! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 154! 3240!EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; mountains around Kokstad, 4300 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1210! Natal; Mooi River Valley, 2000–3000 ft., Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 373! and without precise locality, Buchanan! Gerrard, 1828! Var. β, Delagoa Bay, Forbes!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Potchefstrom district; Mooi River, Nelson, 302! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5810! plains around Barberton, 1800–2600 ft., Galpin, 1190! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5801!

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