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Lachenalia tricolor

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Name

Identification
Lachenalia tricolor Thunb. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA tricolor Thunb. [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 tricolor Thunb. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Prodr. 64; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 327;—Curt. in Bot. Mag. t. 82; Red. Lil. t. 2; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 767; Kerner, Hort. t. 176; Tratt. Archiv. t. 148; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 612; Kunth, Enum. iv. 290; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 404.
Phormium aloides Linn. fil. [family PHORMIACEAE], Suppl. 205, ex parte.
Information
bulb globose, 3/4–1 in. diam.; peduncle, including inflorescence, 1/2–1 ft. long; leaves usually 2, lanceolate-lorate, 6–9 in. long, about 1 in. broad, thin, often spotted, with purple or darker green; raceme few- or many-flowered, usually 3–4, rarely 6–9, in. long; lower flowers cernuous; lower pedicels 1/6– 1/4 in. long; bracts small, deltoid; perianth cylindrical, 3/4–1 in. long, 1/6 in. diam.; outer segments oblong, 1/3 in. long, yellow, tipped with green; inner 1/4– 1/3 in. longer, purplish-red at the spreading truncate tip, which is 1/4 in. broad; stamens reaching to the tip of the inner segments; style finally a little exserted. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg! Cape Div.; near Salt River, Thunberg! near Cape Town, Cooper, 3303! 3546! Var. β, Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Zeyher. 1696! Groene Kloof, Drège, 8624! Saldanha Bay, Ecklon and Zeyher! Kulebas Kraal, Pappe! Var. γ, Cape Flats, Pappe! Var. ε, Paarl Mountains, 1750 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr., 504! Port Elizabeth, at Hill Park, Herb. E.S.C.A. 491!
Notes
The varieties are connected by intermediate stages. Several hybrids between L. pendula and the varieties of L. tricolor are in cultivation, the finest of which is L. Cammi, Hort., which combines the bright yellow flowers of L. aurea with the habit of L. pendula. L. Comessi, Hort., differs from L. Nelsoni by the outer segments being rather longer in proportion to the inner.

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