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Nerine lucida

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Identification
Nerine lucida (Herb.) Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for NERINE lucida Herb. [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 lucida Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryllid. 283, t. 36, fig. 3;—Kunth, Enum. v. 620; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 102.
Amaryllis lucida Burchell [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Travels, i. 536
Brunsvigia lucida Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], App. 16; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 847.
Amaryllis laticoma Ker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Bot. Reg. t. 497.
Information
bulb 3–4 in. diam., with the membranous tunics produced round a neck 2–3 in. above its apex; leaves 6–8, contemporary with the flowers, linear, bright green, spreading, flaccid, a foot or more in length, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad, scabrous on the edge; peduncle stout, ancipitous, 3–8 in. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. diam.; flowers 20–40 in a centripetal umbel; peduncles stiff, moderately stout, 3–4 in. long; spathe-valves ovate-lanceolate, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth-limb 1 1/2–2 in. long, pale or bright red, cut down to a cup 1/8 in. long; segments oblanceolate-unguiculate, 1/4 in. broad, hardly at all crisped; stamens and style declinate, nearly as long as the perianth-segments; ovary globose-trigonous, 1/4 in. diam.; capsule depresso-globose, 1/3– 1/2 in. diam. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; between Griqua Town and Witte Water, Burchell, 1969! Orange Free State; Sand River, Burke! Transvaal, Todd, 22! Bechuanaland; Pellat Plains near Kuruman, Burchell, Bulb No. 68!

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