South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Kniphofia tabularis [family ALOACEAE]
Information
Plants many-stemmed. Leaves soft, arcuate-preading or pendulous from cliff faces, 0.6-1.5 i long, 6-20 mm broad, channelled above and eeled below, the outer shorter and sheathing at ase; margin and keel smooth. Scape arcuate-rect, 0.6-1.2 m tall, occasionally branched ear apex. Raceme lax, oblong to cylindrical, 00-250 x 55-70 mm; buds ascending; flowers preading, eventually deflexed, red or scarlet to ale orange, blackish at tips of lobes. Pedicels -7 mm long, elongating to 10 mm in fruit. tracts linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate to ristate, 7-11 mm long; margin entire. Perianth ubcylindrical, 24-30 mm long; lobes ovate, 3 im long, not spreading. Stamens in throat or lightly exserted at anthesis. Fruit subglobose ) ovoid, 7 mm long. Flowering time: Decem-er and January. Figure 17.
Habitat
A distinct species with long, spreading to penĂ‚Âdulous leaves, lax racemes and long pedicels. An odd feature is that the peduncle is occasionally sparsely branched towards the apex.
Use
19. Kniphofia tabularis Marloth in Yansactions of the South African Philosophical lociety 18: 49 (1907); A.Berger: 329 (1908); /larloth: 102, t. 24c (1915); Codd: 439 (1968); :odd: 1.1661 (1973); Goldblatt & J.C.Manning: 3 (2000). Type: Cape [Western Cape], Table /It, Marloth 4366 (PRE, holo.!; BOL!).
Range
Grows on and at the base of moist cliffs on ie southern aspect of Table Mountain and in imilar situations on mountains in neighbouring districts at altitudes of 800-1 800 m. Map 9.
