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Lachenalia nervosa

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Identification
Lachenalia nervosa Ker Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Entry for LACHENALIA nervosa Gawl. [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 nervosa Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 1497;—Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 607; Kunth, Enum. iv. 288; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 410.
Platyestes nervosa Salisb. [family ], Gen. 21.
Scillopsis nervosa Lemaire [family ], in Ill. Hort. iii. Misc. 34.
Information
bulb large, globose; leaves 2, oblong, thin, smooth, spreading, 4–5 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad at the middle, conspicuously vertically veined; peduncle stout, stiffly erect, 3–6 in. long; raceme dense, 4–6 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. diam.; pedicels short, erecto-patent; bracts deltoid; perianth campanulate, 1/4 in. long, bright red; inner segments scarcely longer than the outer, spreading only at the tip; stamens much exserted. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Mossel Bay Div.; dry hills on the East side of Gauritz River, Burchell, 6438!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Bowie (a drawing in the Kew Herbarium)!

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