Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
Kniphofia ThodeiBaker [family ]
Information
old leaves splitting into fibres, produced few, stiffly erect, linear, under a foot long, 1/8 in. broad, with a thick midrib and scabrous margin; peduncle 1 1/2 ft. long; flowers few in a short, dense raceme, all drooping, orange-scarlet; pedicels very short; bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute, scariose, white, 1/4 in. long; perianth cylindrical, 1 1/4 in. long, 1/6 in. diam. at the throat; lobes oblong, obtuse; stamens not exserted from the perianth-tube. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Basutoland; grassy slopes of Caledon Range, 7000–8000 ft., Thode, 62!
