Entry for LACHENALIA Bowkeri Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
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
LACHENALIA BowkeriBaker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Information
bulb not seen; leaf solitary, thin, lanceolate, falcate, glabrous, 4–6 in. long; peduncle, including the inflorescence, 3–6 in. long; flowers 4–12 in a moderately dense spike, all quite sessile and more or less cernuous; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth cylindrical, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, 1/6 in. diam.; tube campanulate; outer segments oblong, whitish tinged with red; inner 1/8 in. long, white, tinged with red on the keel of the truncate tip; stamens included; style finally exserted. null
