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Ixia bulbocodium

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Identification
Ixia bulbocodium Not on sheet. [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Ixia cappillaris
  • Romulea cruciata
  • Crocus bulbocodium
  • Crocus indet.
  • Romulea linaresii
  • Ixia chloroleuca
  • Romulea bulbocodium
  • Trichonema linarezii
  • Bulbocodium indet.
  • Ixia maritima
  • Romulea rosea
  • Romulea fischeri
  • Ixia bulbocodium

Flora

Entry for ROMULEA similis Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
ROMULEA similis Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE], Top. Verz. 19;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 89; Handb. Irid. 102.
Ixia pumila [family IRIDACEAE], Herb. Banks.
ROMULEA obscura Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], Ergänz. 65.
ROMULEA bulbocodioides Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE], Top. Verz. 19?
Ixia Bulbocodium Thunb. [family IRIDACEAE], Diss. Ixia, p. 6 and 22, and Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. p. 55, non Linnæus.
Information
corm globose, 1/4 in. diam., with smooth, brown, crustaceous tunics; produced leaf one, subsetaceous, firm in texture, 4–6 in. long, 1/2 lin. broad; peduncle short; pedicels 1–4, about an inch long, subtended by erect rudimentary leaves 1–2 in. long; outer spathe-valve green, lanceolate, firm in texture, 1/2 in. long, inner smaller, membranous; perianth funnel-shaped, with a very short tube, and lanceolate segments 1/3 in. long, the inner white, the outer green; stamens half as long as the perianth-segments; styles as long as the stamens. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Lion Mountain and Devils Mountain, Thunberg! Camps Bay, Ecklon! Near Cape Town, Bolus, 3734, partly!
Notes
This is the nearest representative at the Cape of the European R. Columnæ.

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