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Sandersonia aurantiaca

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Name

Identification
Sandersonia aurantiaca Hook. [family COLCHICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sandersonia aurantiaca

Flora

Entry for SANDERSONIA aurantiaca Hook. [family COLCHICACEAE]
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
SANDERSONIA aurantiaca Hook. [family COLCHICACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 4716;—Harvey, Cape Genera, edit. 2, 403; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 453.
Information
rootstock tuberous; stem erect, simple, 1–2 ft. long, leafy to the apex, except a short distance near the base; leaves sessile, alternate, ascending, linear or lanceolate, 2–4 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad; flowers solitary from the axils of a few of the upper leaves on slender, cernuous, ebracteate pedicels 1/2–1 in. long; perianth bright yellow, 3/4–1 in. long; stamens and pistil 1/4– 1/3 as long as the perianth. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 255! Griqualand East; woods around Fort Donald, 5000 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 528! Natal, Wood, 459! Sutherland! Sanderson! Gerrard, 527!

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