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Lachenalia glaucina

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Name

Identification
Lachenalia glaucina Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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  • Lachenalia glaucina

Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA glaucina Jacq. [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 glaucina Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. Suppl. 59; Ic. ii. 16, t. 391;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 171; Tratt. Archiv. t. 155; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 603; Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 3552; Kunth, Enum. iv. 284; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 405.
LACHENALIA sessiliflora Andr. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 460.
LACHENALIA pallida Lindl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Bot. Reg. tt. 1350 and 1945; Kunth, Enum. iv. 284; Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 170, and Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 405, non Ait.
Orchiastrum glaucinum Lemaire [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Ill. Hort. ii. Misc. 100.
Information
bulb globose, about 1 in. diam.; leaves usually two, lorate, smooth, often spotted, about an inch broad, clasping the base of the stem; stem 1/2–1 ft. long including the inflorescence; spike moderately dense, many-flowered, 1–4 in. long; flowers all permanently erecto-patent; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth oblong-cylindrical, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 1/6 in. diam., white, red, yellow, or tinged with blue; inner segments 1/6– 1/4 in. longer than the outer, spreading, especially the lowest; stamens and style reaching the tip of the inner segments. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Table Mountain, Ecklon, 448! near Cape Town, Bolus, 4600! Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 950! by the Berg River, near Paarl, Drège, 1492b! Swellendam Div.; on mountain ridges by the lower part of Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4288!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; near Mieren Kasteel, Drège!

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