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Lapeirousia euryphylla

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Identification
Lapeirousia euryphylla Harms [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Savannosiphon euryphyllus (Harms) Goldblatt & Marais [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Lapeirousia euryphylla
  • Savannosiphon euryphyllus

Flora

Entry for SAVANNOSIPHON euryphylla (Harms) Goldblatt & Marais [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: Peter Goldblatt
Names
SAVANNOSIPHON euryphylla (Harms) Goldblatt & Marais [family IRIDACEAE], in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 66: 849 (1979); Goldblatt in F.Z. 12(4): 28 (1993). Type: Tanzania, Iringa, Goetze 551 (B, holo.!)
Lapeirousia euryphylla Harms [family IRIDACEAE], in E.J. 28: 366 (1900)
Acidanthera euryphylla (Harms) Diels [family IRIDACEAE], in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 15a: 492 (1930)
Information
Plants 15-30 cm. high. Corm ± 1 cm. diameter; tunics of medium to coarse fibres. Leaves 3-5, the lower 1-2(-3) broadly laminate, ± as long to slightly longer than the stem, lanceolate, plicate, the upper leaves shorter and partly to almost entirely sheathing. Stem erect, compressed and 2-winged, unbranched. spike 1-4(-6)-flowered; bracts 4-6(-20) cm. long, green, inner shorter than the outer. Flowers actinomorphic, white, night-blooming, odourless; perianth-tube nearly cylindric, 8-12.5 cm. long; tepals lanceolate, 4-5 cm. long, acute, the dorsal sometimes larger and somewhat hooded. Filaments inserted 1.5 cm. below the mouth of the tube; anthers ± 1 cm. long, with prominent acute appendages, entirely included or partly emerging from the tube. Style dividing near the apex of the anthers, usually the apices of the style-branches exserted from the tube. Capsules ± 1.5 cm. long. Fig. 5.
Range
DISTR. T 4, 5, 7; A genus of one SPECIES of south tropical Africa.
Altitude range
1100-2000 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Mpanda District Itumba, 26 Jan. 1971, Leedal 585!;TANZANIA Mpwapwa District Kiboriani Mts., 9 Feb. 1937, Hornby & Hornby 744!;TANZANIA Mbeya District Itimba Coffee Estate between Utengule and Mshewe, 25 Jan. 1991, Gereau, Lovett & Kayombo 3713!
Distribution (external)
Zaire (Shaba)
Malawi
Zambia
northern Mozambique

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