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Massonia muricata

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Name

Identification
Massonia muricata Ker Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Verified by Ecklon, C.F., Massonia echinata L.f. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Verified by Ecklon, C.F., Massonia hirsuta Link & Otto [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Verified by Müller-Doblies, U.; Müller-Doblies, D., 2010 Massonia inexpectata Poelln. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Müller-Doblies, U.; Müller-Doblies, D., 2010
Related name
  • Massonia hirsuta
  • Massonia inexpectata
  • Massonia echinata
  • Massonia muricata

Flora

Entry for MASSONIA muricata Gawl. [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 muricata Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 559;—Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii 210; Kunth, Enum. iv. 296; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 389.
Information
bulb ovoid, 1 in. diam.; leaves thin, round-cordate, 3–4 in. long and broad, densely setose on the upper surface towards the margin; capitulum dense, globose, subsessile; outer bracts oblong-lanceolate, an inch long; outer pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long; perianth whitish, an inch long; segments lanceolate, reflexing, half as long as the tube; filaments as long as the perianth-tube, united into a distinct cup at the base; anthers small, oblong. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson.
Notes
Introduced by Masson into cultivation in 1790. It has long been lost, and I am not aware that there is any specimen in existence.

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