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Ornithogalum ecklonii

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Identification
Ornithogalum ecklonii Schltdl. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ORNITHOGALUM tenuifolium F. Delaroche [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: Brita Stedje, Ph.D.
Names
ORNITHOGALUM tenuifolium F. Delaroche [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Redouté, Lil. 6, t. 312 (1811); Stedje & Nordal in Nordic Journ. Bot. 4: 758, figs. 3, 13c(1984); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 424 (1992); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 320, t. 147 (1994); Thulin, Fl. Somalia 4: 53 (1995). Type: t. 312 in Redouté, Lil. 6, origin unknown.
ORNITHOGALUM ecklonii Fisch. & Mey. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 6: 62 (1840). Type: South Africa, western Cape, Ecklon (?LE, holo.)
ORNITHOGALUM ecklonii Schltdl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Linnaea 25: 177 (1852); Baker in F.T.A. 7: 546 (1898); Polhill in Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 24: 21 (1962); Hanid in U.K.W.F.: 697 (1974), nom. illegit ., non Fisch. & Mey. Type: South Africa, eastern Cape, Ecklon (B, holo.† )
ORNITHOGALUM sordidum Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in K.B. 1895: 228 (1895) & in F.T.A. 7: 546 (1898); F.P.U.: 205 (1962). Type: Somalia, Golis Range, Woob, Cole (K, holo.!)
Albuca longebracteata Engl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in E.J. 15: 472 (1892); Baker in F.T.A. 7: 529 (1898). Type: Kenya, Kitui District, Ukamba, Hildebrandt 2646 (B, holo.)
Ornithogalum longibracteatum [family HYACINTHACEAE], sensu Baker in F.T.A. 7: 545 (1898); Polhill in Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc.: 24: 21 (1962); Verdc. & Trump, Common Poisonous Pl. E. Afr.: 180 (1969); Hanid in U.K.W.F.: 697 (1974); Kokwaro, Medicinal Pl. E. Afr., ed. 2: 260 (1993), non Jacq.
Ornithogalum tenuifolium (Baker) Stedje subsp. sordidum [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Nordic Journ. Bot. 4: 758 (1984)
Ornithogalum tenuifolium Stedje subsp. robustum [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Nordic Journ. Bot. 4: 758 (1984). Type: Uganda, Toro District, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Mweya peninsula at Mweya Lodge, A. Bjørnstad 548 (O, holo.!)
Information
Plants relatively small to tall and robust, up to 2 m. high. Bulb 2-15 cm. across. Scape erect to curved, 20-180 cm. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, up to 130 cm. long, 0.5-6.7 cm. broad. Inflorescence a raceme with 15-300 flowers; pedicels 2-15 mm. during anthesis; bracts lanceolate to ovate-acuminate, 4-80 mm. long. Perianth-segments 5-11 mm., with many vascular bundles assembled in a green midrib. Filaments 3-8 mm., ovate-acuminate with or without a tooth on each side. Ovary ellipsoid, 2.5-5 mm., without a carpophore; style ± as long as the ovary. Capsule 5-13 mm. long. Seeds 4-6 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4; K 1, 3-6; T 1-8; south to South Africa
Altitude range
300-3000 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Bunyoro District Kitoba, 7 Feb. 1943, Purseglove 1287!;KENYA Slopes of Elgon, above Endebess, 30 Apr. 1961, Polhill 415!;KENYA Lake Naivasha, 6 July 1973, Polhill 403!;TANZANIA Mbulu District few miles down the road from Oldeani to Mangola [Mongala], 22.5 km. from Mongala, 1 Apr. 1964, Verdcourt 4011!;UGANDA Toro District Ruwenzori, Nyakasura, 5 May 1937, Katamba & Mbatia 19!;UGANDA Ankole District Lake Karenge, 23 Nov. 1935, Buxwin 1343!KENYA Kiambu District Karura Forest, 6 Jan. 1970, Perdue & Kibuwa 10191!TANZANIA Dodoma District Itigi, 19 Apr. 1964, Greenway & Polhill 11636!;TANZANIA Songea District ± 11 km. W. of Songea in Ulamboni valley, 1 Jan. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8016!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Somalia
Notes
Chromosome number 2n = 12, 16.The two subSPECIES described in Stedje & Nordal (1984) are not maintained here, as further investigations of O. tenuifolium over a larger geographical area have shown that the there is little or no correlation of tendencies of morphological discontinuities and chromosome numbers/karyotypes (cf. Nordal & Stedje in Kirkia 14: 12-18 (1993)).The bulb of O. tenuifolium is very poisonous.

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