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Lachenalia unifolia

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Identification
Lachenalia unifolia Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA unifolia 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 unifolia Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 43, t. 83;—Bot. Mag. t. 766; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 178; Tratt. Archiv. t. 158; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 611; Kunth, Enum. iv. 289; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 406.
Monoestes unifolia Salisb. [family ], Gen. 21.
Scillopsis unifolia Lemaire [family ], in Ill. Hort. iii. Misc. 34.
Information
bulb small, globose; leaf long, linear-subulate, erect, clasping the base of the stem for 2–3 inches, conspicuously branded with brown towards the base; peduncle, including the inflorescence, 1/2–1 ft. long; flowers 6–20, arranged in a lax raceme; pedicels ascending, lower 1/6– 1/4 in. long; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth oblong, about 1/2 in. long, 1/6 in. diam., white, or more or less tinged with red or blue; tube campanulate; outer segments oblong, inner protruding 1/12– 1/8 in., broad and spreading at the tip; stamens as long as the inner segments. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div., Zeyher! Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof, MacOwan, 2501! Bolus, 4353! Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Bolus 4353! Mac-Owan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 370! Pappe! Paarl Div.; near Paarl Mts., below 1000 ft., Drège, 477! Var. β, Cape Div.; Simons Bay, Wright, 219! Camps Bay, Ecklon and Zeyher, 130! Caledon Div.; on the Zwartberg, near the Hot Spring, Zeyher! Var. γ, Tulbagh, Pappe! Var. δ, Cape Flats, Pappe!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Niven! Thom! Var. β, Grey Var. γ, Rogers!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; near Klip Fontein, 3000 ft., Bolus, 6592!

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