Entry for MASSONIA echinata Linn. fil. [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 echinataLinn. fil. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Suppl. 193;—Thunb. Prodr. 60; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 308; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 210; Kunth, Enum. iv. 296; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 389.
Information
bulb ovoid, under an inch in diameter; tunics dull brown; leaves thin, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, 3–4 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad at the middle, clothed over both surfaces with conspicuous whitish bristles; capitulum an inch in diameter, shortly peduncled; outer bracts green, oblong, acute, 1/2 in. long; outer pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long; perianth whitish, 2/3 in. long; segments linear, reflexing, rather shorter than the cylindrical tube; filaments slender, 1/3 in. long; anthers oblong, minute. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Bokkeland Berg, Thunberg!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson, sketched in the year 1794!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Hardeveld, 2000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 1717!
