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Massonia calvata

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Name

Identification
Massonia versicolor Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Massonia echinata L.f. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by A.M. van der Merwe, Massonia calvata Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Massonia versicolor
  • Massonia calvata
  • Massonia echinata

Flora

Entry for MASSONIA calvata Baker [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
MASSONIA calvata Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1878, 321
Information
bulb ovoid or globose, under an inch in diameter; leaves ovate or orbicular, thin, obtuse, glabrous when mature, slightly tuberculato-hispid when young, 2–3 in. long and broad; capitulum dense, sessile, 1 in. diam.; outer bracts ovate, acute, much imbricated, under 1/2 in. long; pedicels very short; perianth white, 1/2 in. long; segments lanceolate, as long as the tube; filaments as long as the perianth-segments; anthers oblong, minute. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION mountains near Graaff Reinet, 4400–5500 ft., Bolus, 749!

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