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Kniphofia pauciflora

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Name

Identification
Kniphofia pauciflora Baker [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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  • Kniphofia pauciflora

Flora

Entry for KNIPHOFIA pauciflora Baker [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
KNIPHOFIA pauciflora Baker [family ], in Journ. Bot. 1885, 280;—Bot. Mag. t. 7269.
Information
leaves few, linear, rigid, firm, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/8– 1/6 in. broad, with 10–15 veins and a thickened smooth margin; peduncle slender, terete, 1 1/2–2 ft. long; raceme lax, 2–3 in. long; pedicels 1/8– 1/6 in. long; bracts lanceolate, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; flowers pale yellow; perianth narrowly funnel-shaped, 3/4 in. long, 1/6 in. diam. at the throat; stamens shortly exserted. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Clairmont, Wood, 1096! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 416!
Notes
Mr. Dewar has crossed this species with K. Macowani. The hybrid first flowered at Kew, Oct., 1893.

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