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Identification
Lachenalia orchioides (L.) Aiton [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA orchioides Ait. [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 orchioides Ait. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 460; edit. 2, ii. 284;—Jacq. Collect. iii. 241; Ic. ii. 16, t. 390; Thunb. Prodr. 64; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 327; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 172; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. tt. 854 and 1269; Tratt. Archiv. t. 154; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 603; Kunth, Enum. iv. 284; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 405; Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 171.
LACHENALIA pulchella Kunth [family HYACINTHACEAE], Enum. iv. 284.
LACHENALIA mutabilis Sweet [family HYACINTHACEAE], Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 129; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1076; Kunth, Enum. 285.
Hyacinthus orchioides Linn. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Sp. Plant. 318.
Phormium hyacinthoides Linn. fil. [family PHORMIACEAE], Suppl. 204.
Muscari orchioides Miller [family HYACINTHACEAE], Dict. edit. viii. No. 5.
Orchiastrum Aitoni Lemaire [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Ill. Hort. ii. Misc. 100.
Orchiastrum virentiflavum Lemaire [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Ill. Hort. ii. Misc. 100.
Orchiastrum pulchellum Lemaire [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Ill. Hort. ii. Misc. 100.
Orchiastrum mutabile Lemaire [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Ill. Hort. ii. Misc. 100.
Information
bulb globose, 3/4–1 in. diam.; leaves usually 2, lorate, suberect, smooth, often spotted, an inch broad, clasping the base of the stem; peduncle, including the inflorescence, 1/2–1 ft. long, often spotted; spike 1–6 in. long, about an inch in diam.; flowers all permanently ascending; bracts small, deltoid-amplexicaul; perianth oblong, about 1/3 in. long, 1/6 in. diam., white, yellow, red, or blue; tube campanulate; outer segments oblong; inner 1/12– 1/8 in. longer, spreading at the tip; stamens and style included. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury, Bachmann, 485! 2062! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Bolus, 2839! Table Mountain, MacGillivray, 475! Simons Bay, Wright! Tygerberg, Pappe! Brak Fontein, near Matroos Bay, Ecklon and Zeyher, 41! Tulbagh, Pappe! Caledon Div.; between Zwartberg and Ganse Kraal, 1000–2000 ft., Zeyher, 4286! Swellendam Div.; on dry hills by Breede River, Burchell, 7478! mountain ridges by the lower part of Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4289! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 1337! Galpin, 228!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Forster! Zeyher, 1695! 4287!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; near Ookiep, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5803! Scully, 86!
Notes
The most striking named colour-forms are atroviolacea (hyacinth-blue), virentiflava (greenish-yellow), and mutabilis (inner segments dull yellow, tipped with red-brown).

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