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Lachenalia pusilla

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Identification
Lachenalia pusilla Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA pusilla 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 pusilla Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. Suppl. 71; Ic. ii. 15, t. 385;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 175; Tratt. Archiv. t. 144; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 616; Kunth, Enum. iv. 292.
Massonia undulata Thunb. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Prodr. 60; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 308; Diss. Nov. Gen. ii. 41; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 28; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 211; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 992; Kunth, Enum. iv. 300.
Brachyscypha undulata Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 394.
Information
bulb globose, 1/2 in. diam.; leaves about 4, lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, with a thickened margin, 2–3 in. long, narrowed gradually from the middle to a short clasping petiole, spotted with brown or becoming red-brown when exposed; peduncle 1/2–1 1/2 in. long; flowers 6–12 in a dense corymb, permanently erect, pale lilac; pedicels 1/12– 1/8 in. long; bracts small, deltoid; perianth cylindrical, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; tube very short; inner segments obscurely spathulate, slightly longer than the outer; stamens and style much exserted. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 1791!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 2687! Zeyher, 4275! Ecklon and Zeyher, 23! and a specimen cultivated by Jacquin!

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