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Ornithogalum tenellum

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Name

Identification
Ornithogalum tenellum Jacq. [family ASPARAGACEAE ] (stored under name); Ornithogalum pilosum L. f. [family ASPARAGACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ornithogalum pilosum
  • Ornithogalum tenellum
  • Ornithogalum bergii

Flora

Entry for ORNITHOGALUM tenellum 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 tenellum Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. ii. 316; Ic. ii. 19, t. 427;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 121; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 526; Kunth, Enum. iv. 358; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 283.
Information
bulb globose, 1 in. diam.; leaves 4–5, linear, glabrous, 1/2–1 ft. long; peduncle slender, stiffly erect, a foot or more long; raceme dense, subcorymbose; pedicels erecto-patent, lower 1–2 in. long; bracts ovate-acuminate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; perianth pure white, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; segments oblong, 1/6 in. broad, not keeled; stamens half as long as the perianth; alternate filaments dilated at the base; style slender, 1/12 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; between Duivenhoeks River and Grootvaders Bosch, Burchell, 7216!
Notes
Perhaps only a slender, narrow-leaved variety of O. lacteum.

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