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Lachenalia rubida

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Name

Identification
Lachenalia rubida Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA rubida 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 rubida Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. Suppl. 60; Ic. ii. 17, t. 398;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 179; Ait. Hort. Kew, edit. 2, ii. 288; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 615; Tratt. Archiv. t. 145; Kunth, Enum. iv. 291; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 404.
Information
bulb globose, about 1/2 in. diam.; peduncle, including inflorescence, 6–9 in. long; leaves usually 2, lanceolate, finally 5–6 in. long, about an inch broad at the middle, spotted, much narrowed to a long clasping base; raceme 6–20-flowered, all the flowers except the uppermost more or less drooping; pedicels very short; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth cylindrical, about an inch long, 1/6 in. diam.; outer segments bright red, tipped with green; inner 1/6– 1/4 in. longer, yellow below the exposed tip, where they are 1/6 in. broad; stamens reaching to the tip of the outer perianth-segments; style finally just exserted. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Var. γ, Calvinia Div.; Bitter Fontein, Zeyher, 1697!COAST REGION Malmesbury, Bachmann, 1877! Cape Div.; Muizenberg, 100–200 ft., Bolus, 4889! MacOwan, 2551! Pappe! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr., 796! Flats between Tygerberg and Blueberg, under 500 ft., Drège! Var. γ, Clanwilliam, Mader, 2161!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand, Whitehead!

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