Entry for ORNITHOGALUM juncifolium Jacq. [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
ORNITHOGALUM juncifoliumJacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 46, t. 90;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 123; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 524; Kunth, Enum. iv. 358; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 274.
Information
bulb large, globose; leaves 12–20, subulate, glabrous, under a foot long; scape flexuose, about a foot long; raceme moderately dense, 1/2–1 ft. long; pedicels, ascending or spreading, lower 1/2 in. long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth white, 1/3 in. long; segments distinctly keeled; stamens 2/3 the length of the perianth; filaments alternately linear and lanceolate; style 1/8 in. long. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Known to me only from Jacquin's figure. May be only a robust garden-grown form of O. graminifolium.
