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Imantophyllum miniatum

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Imantophyllum miniatum
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Flora

Entry for CLIVIA miniata Regel [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
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
CLIVIA miniata Regel [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Gartenflora, 1864, 131, t. 434
Imantophyllum miniatum Hook. [family ], in Bot. Mag. tt. 4783; Flore des Serres, tt. 949, 950; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 62.
Himantophyllum miniatum Groenland [family ], in Rev. Hort. 1859, 125, tt. 29–30; Flore des Serres, tt. 2373–4.
Vallota? miniata Lindl. [family ], in Gard. Chron. 1854, 119.
Cyrtanthus Smithii Krauss [family ], in Flora, 1845, 311.
Information
leaves 16–20, oblanceolate, suberect, bright green, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad, narrowed to the apex and gradually to the base; peduncle stout, ancipitous, 1–1 1/2 ft. long; flowers 12–20 in an umbel; pedicels 1–2 in. long; spathe-valves several, linear or lanceolate, greenish, 1 1/2–2 in. long; perianth erect, bright scarlet with a yellow throat; tube infundibuliform, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; limb 2–2 1/2 in. long; outer segments oblanceolate, inner oblanceolate-oblong, 1/2 in. broad; stamens shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers yellow, 1/6 in. long; ovary globose, 1/4 in. diam.; style reaching to the top of the perianth-segments. null
Range
Introduced into cultivation by Backhouse in 1854.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; mountains near Pietermaritzburg, 2800 ft., Mac-Owan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 804! and without precise locality, Buchanan! Cooper, 3219!
Notes
Var. Lindeni, André in Ill. Hort. 1878, t. 343, is a robust large-flowered variety with the inner segments of the limb an inch broad. Between C. nobilis and miniata a fine hybrid has been raised, which is now common in European gardens under the name of Imantophyllum cyrtanthiflorum. A full account of it, with figures, will be found in Van Houtte's Flore des Serres, t. 1877, and by Groenland in the Revue Horticole for 1859, vol. viii. p. 258, fig. 65. It has a curved perianth, with the inner segments of the limb twice as broad as the outer, and exserted stamens.

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