Entry for SCILLA Cooperi Hook. fil. [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
SCILLA CooperiHook. fil. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5580;—Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. iii. App. 7; Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 247.
Information
bulb subglobose, 1 in. diam.; leaves 4–5, erect, lanceolate, 8–10 in. long, under an inch broad, striated on the back with purple and spotted towards the base; peduncle curved, 4–6 in. long; raceme moderately dense, oblong, 2–3 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. diam.; central pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long, lower cernuous; perianth campanulate, 1/8 in. long, green outside, bright mauve-purple inside; filaments filiform, dark purple; ovary stipitate, discoid at the base. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Orange River, cultivated specimen, Hort. Bull!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimen, Cooper!
