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Lachenalia patula

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Name

Identification
Lachenalia patula Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA patula 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 patula Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. iv. 149; Ic. ii. 15, t. 384;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 175; Tratt. Archiv. t. 156; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 602; Kunth, Enum. iv. 288; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 406.
Scillopsis patula Lemaire [family ], in Ill. Hort. iii. Misc. 35.
Information
bulb small, globose, leaves 2, lanceolate, smooth, unspotted, falcate, 4–6 in. long; peduncle slender, spotted; flowers 15–20 in a raceme 2–3 in. long; lower pedicels 1/4 in. long; bracts deltoid, minute; perianth oblong-cylindrical, 3/4 in. long, 1/6 in. diam., white tinged with pink; inner segments much longer than the outer, broad at the tip and very spreading; stamens included. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Known to me only from Jacquin's figure.

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