Entry for SCILLA megaphylla 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 megaphyllaBaker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Information
bulb large; leaves sessile, lorate-lanceolate, 1 1/2 ft. long, 3–3 1/2 in. broad at the middle, but little narrowed to the base; peduncle 9–12 in. long; raceme lax, 6–8 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. diam.; pedicels ascending or spreading, the central ones 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts minute, lanceolate; perianth greenish, campanulate, 1/6 in. long; stamens as long as the perianth; filaments green. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; damp, grassy hollows near Barberton, 2000–2800 ft., Galpin, 1184!
