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Lachenalia violacea

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Name

Identification
Lachenalia violacea Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Lachenalia violacea

Flora

Entry for LACHENALIA violacea 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 violacea Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. iv. 147; Ic. ii. 16, t. 394;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 177; Tratt. Archiv. t. 166; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 610; Kunth, Enum. iv. 289; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 410.
LACHENALIA bicolor Lodd. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Bot. Cab. t. 1129; Kunth, loc. cit.
Scillopsis violacea Lemaire [family ], in Ill. Hort. iii. Misc. 35.
Information
bulb 1/2 in. diam.; leaves 2, lorate, smooth, spotted, 1/2 ft. long, an inch broad; peduncle curved, 1/2–1 ft. long; raceme lax, 4–5 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. diam.; flowers many, cernuous; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long; bracts minute; perianth campanulate, 1/4 in. long; outer segments greenish, inner rather longer, violet, spreading at the tip; stamens much exserted. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimen!

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