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Methonica grandiflora

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Name

Identification
Methonica grandiflora Hook. [family COLCHICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Methonica grandiflora

Flora

Entry for GLORIOSA virescens Baker Var. grandiflora [family COLCHICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
GLORIOSA virescens Baker Var. grandiflora [family COLCHICACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 458.
Methonica grandiflora Hook. [family ], in Bot. Mag. t. 5216; Ill. Hort. viii. t. 273.
Methonica Leopoldi Lemaire [family ], in Fl. des Serres, t. 163–4 (flowers yellow).
Information
Flowers larger; perianth-segments 3–4 in. long, 8–9 lin. broad at the middle.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land in marshy ground at Abu Kuka, on the Bahr-el-Jebel, Petherick!Niger Upper Guinea Grand Bassa, Vogel, 22!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann, 72!
Notes
G. simplex, Linn. Mant. 62, and G. cœrulea, Mill. Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 2, are doubtful names, which probably both belong to this species.

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