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Richardia angustiloba

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Name

Identification
Richardia angustiloba Schott [family ARACEAE ]
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  • Richardia angustiloba

Flora

Entry for RICHARDIA angustiloba Schott [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 32, (1900) Author: (By N. E. BROWN.)
Names
RICHARDIA angustiloba Schott [family ], in Journ. Bot. 1865, 35;—Engl. in DC. Monog. Phan. ii. 329.
RICHARDIA macrocarpa Watson [family ], in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 124.
RICHARDIA Pentlandii Whyte ex Watson [family ], in Gard. Chron. 1894, xv. 590; Bot. Mag. t. 7397.
Calla Pentlandii Whyte ex Watson [family ARACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 124.
Zantedeschia angustiloba Engl. [family ARACEAE], Jahrb. iv. 64.
Zantedeschia macrocarpa Engl. [family ARACEAE], Jahrb. iv. 64.
Information
petiole smooth, without bristles; blade of leaf 7 1/2–17 in. long, 4–11 in. broad across the basal lobes, elongate-deltoid or elongate-oblong, acute or acuminate, hastate, with short or long and spreading basal lobes and a very open sinus, the part above the basal lobes elongate-deltoid or elongate-oblong, acute or acuminate, twice as long as broad or more, green, unspotted; spathe 4–4 1/2 in. long; limb oblique, subhorizontal, clear deep gamboge-yellow, with a dark purple-brown blotch at the base inside, paler outside; spadix shortly stipitate, scarcely half as long as the spathe, cylindric; ovaries with a subsessile stigma, pale greenish-white; staminodia none; anthers yellow. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Trigards Fontein, Rehmann, 82, 83; Mapoch District, west of Lydenburg, cultivated specimen!
Notes
I have only seen a drawing of Rehmann's specimen of R. macrocarpa (Engler, Araceæ No. 27), and although the colour of the flowering spathe is unknown, yet so far as the drawing and description go, it appears to me in every way identical with R. angustiloba, Schott, and R. Pentlandii, Whyte. The Mapoch locality is given on the authority of Mr. E. E. Galpin, formerly of Barberton, Transvaal, who presented living plants of this species to Kew.

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