Entry for NERINE appendiculata Baker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
NERINE appendiculataBaker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1894, xvi. 336
Information
bulb ovoid, middle-sized; leaves 3, contemporary with the flowers, linear, green, glabrous, a foot long, deeply channelled down the face; peduncle stout, terete, about 2 feet long; flowers 10–15 in a centripetal umbel; spathe-valves small, membranous, tinged with red; pedicels very pubescent; perianth red, an inch long; segments linear, distinctly keeled, crisped in the upper half; filaments each appendiculate at the base outside with a lacerated membranous strap-shaped process 1/6 in. long; anthers small, oblong; ovary 1/4 in. diam., deeply 3-lobed; style as long as the stamens. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal, Wood!
Notes
Described from a cultivated specimen sent by Mr. Jas. O'Brien in 1894.
