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Ornithogalum nanum

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Name

Identification
Ornithogalum sibthorpii Greuter [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Ornithogalum sigmoideum Freyn & Sint. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Ornithogalum nanum Sibth. & Sm. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ornithogalum sibthorpii
  • Ornithogalum nanum
  • Ornithogalum sigmoideum
  • Scilla unifolia

Flora

Entry for EUCOMIS nana Ait. [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
EUCOMIS nana Ait. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 432; edit. 2, ii. 245;—Jacq. Collect. iv. 213; Hort. Schoenbr. i. 47, t. 92; Thunb. Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 316; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1495; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 623.
Ornithogalum nanum Thunb. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Prodr. 62.
Basilæa nana Zuccagn. [family ], in Roem. Coll. 136; Poir. Encyc. Suppl. i. 590.
Information
bulb globose, 2 in. diam.; leaves about 8, lingulate, obtuse, firmer in texture than in E. punctata and E. undulata, suffused with purple on the back towards the base, not undulated, finally 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 3–4 in. broad above the middle, narrowed gradually from the middle to the base; peduncle short, clavate, an inch thick at the top, spotted with purple; raceme dense, oblong, 3–4 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. diam.; pedicels scarcely any; leaves of the coma 12–20, oblong, acute; perianth green, 1/2 in. long; segments oblong; filaments 1/4 in. long, lanceolate in the lower half. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; South Downs, 5000–6000 ft., Evans, 401! Tugela Valley, Boyle!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson!
Notes
Mainly described from a plant that flowered at Kew in 1878.

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