Entry for RICHARDIA melanoleuca Hook. f. [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 melanoleucaHook. f. [family ], in Bot. Mag. t. 5765;—Gard. Chron. 1869, 1182; Engl. in DC. Monog. Phan. ii. 328.
Zantedeschia melanoleucaEngl. [family ARACEAE], Jahrb. iv. 64.
Information
petiole with soft bristles on the lower part; blade of the leaf 5–8 in. long, 2 1/4–6 in. broad across the basal lobes, deltoid or ovate-deltoid, acute, with a subulate point, hastate or sagittate at the base, with an open sinus, the part above the basal lobes usually much less than twice as long as broad, green, with numerous semitransparent white spots; spathe 2–3 in. long, obliquely subtruncate at the mouth, light yellow or greenish-yellow, with a dark purple-brown blotch at the base inside; spadix shortly stipitate, cylindric; ovaries with scarcely any style, pale greenish; stigma subsessile; staminodia none; anthers yellow. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 431! and without precise locality, Buchanan! Gerrard, 1525! Sanderson, 2091!
