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Kniphofia sarmentosa

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Identification
Kniphofia sarmentosa (Andrews) Kunth [family ASPHODELACEAE ]
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  • Kniphofia sarmentosa

Flora

Entry for KNIPHOFIA sarmentosa Kunth [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 sarmentosa Kunth [family ], Enum. iv. 552;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 362; Journ. Bot. 1885, 279.
Aletris sarmentosa Andr. [family MELANTHIACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 54.
Veltheimia sarmentosa Willd. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Enum. 380.
Veltheimia repens Andr. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Recens. 18.
Veltheimia media Donn [family HYACINTHACEAE], Hort. Cant. edit. ii. 131.
Tritoma media Gawl. [family ], in Bot. Mag. t. 744; Red. Lil. t. 161; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 290.
Tritomanthe media Link [family ], Enum. i. 333; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 630.
Information
leaves ensiformacuminate, 2–3 ft. long, 3/4–1 in. broad low down, glaucous green, acutely keeled, with about a dozen ribs on each side of the midrib; peduncle stout, as long as the leaves; raceme dense, cylindrical, 1/2–1 ft. long, 2 in. diam.; pedicels very short; bracts lanceolate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; perianth cylindrical, 3/4–1 in. long, under 1/12 in. diam. above the ovary, 1/6 in. at the throat; segments broad ovate, obtuse, 1/12 in. long; longer stamens and style finally exserted 1/3– 1/2 in. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.

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