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Schizostylis coccinea

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Name

Identification
Schizostylis coccinea Backh. & Harv. [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for SCHIZOSTYLIS coccinea Backh. and Harv. [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
SCHIZOSTYLIS coccinea Backh. and Harv. [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5422;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 108; Handb. Irid. 147; Klatt, Ergänz. 48.
Information
root-fibres densely tufted, rather fleshy; leaves of basal rosette 2–3, linear, glabrous, grass-like in texture, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad, furnished with a distinct midrib; stems slender, terete 1–2 ft. long, bearing 2–3 erect, sheathing, reduced leaves; flowers 6–8, arranged in a lax distichous spike; outer spathe-valve entirely herbaceous and green, lanceolate, 1–1 1/4 in. long; inner rather smaller and more membranous; perianth-tube straight, erect, 1–1 1/4 in. long; limb deep crimson, as long as the tube, the oblong acute segments uniform in colour and texture; anthers 1/3 in. long, equalling the filaments; style-branches 3/4 in. long; capsule sessile, obtuse, 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Stockenstrom Div., Scully, 14! Elliot, 400!EASTERN REGION Kaffraria, hills up to 4000 ft.; Bazeia Mountains, Baur, 164! sources of Buffels River, Murray in Herb. MacOwan, 1892! Fakus territory, 5000 ft., Sutherland! Griqualand East, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1181! Natal, Gerrard, 1528! Swaziland, 3000–4500 ft., Galpin, 726!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal, Atherstone! Rhenoster Poort River, Nelson, 401! Lydenburg district, Roe in Hb. Bolus, 2653!

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