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Identification
Scilla kraussii Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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Entry for SCILLA Kraussii Baker [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 Kraussii Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 243
Information
bulb globose, 1 1/2–2 in. diam., not crowned with bristles; leaves about 4, spreading, lanceolate, firm in texture, strongly ribbed, densely pubescent, 2–3 in. long; peduncle slender, 6–9 in. long; raceme moderately dense, 3–4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. diam.; pedicels erectopatent, articulated at the tip, 1/8– 1/2 in. long; bracts linear, 1/6 in. long; perianth campanulate, bright blue, 1/6 in. long; segments oblong; filaments shorter than the perianth-segments, deltoid at the base; ovary subsessile, globose; ovules few, superposed. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 286! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 357! Noodsberg, Wood, 928! stony hill near York, 3000–4000 ft., Wood, 4304! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 740! Krauss, 444!

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