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Lachenalia mediana

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Name

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

Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA mediana 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 mediana Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. iii. 242; Ic. ii. 16, t. 392;—Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 604; Tratt. Archiv. t. 159; Kunth, Enum. iv. 287; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 408.
Scillopsis mediana Lemaire [family ], in Ill. Hort. iii. Misc. 35.
Information
bulb small, globose; leaves 2, smooth, lorate, above a foot long, an inch broad; peduncle flexuose, unspotted, a foot long; raceme lax, 2–3 in. long, 1 in. diam.; all the flowers erecto-patent; pedicels short; bracts ovate; perianth oblong-campanulate, 1/3 in. long, white, with the base tinted blue and the tip of all the segments green; inner segments a little longer than the outer; stamens just exserted, null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Rondebosch, 50 ft., Bolus, 4829! Yzer Plaat, near Salt River, Zeyher, 4660! Caledon Div.; among shrubs near the Hot Spring at Caledon (a form with the lower flowers tipped with red), MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1560!

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