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Scilla nervosa

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Identification
Scilla nervosa Burch.l J.P.Jessop [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Unknown, Scilla gerrardi Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Verified by Unknown, Scilla rigidifolia Kunth [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Verified by Unknown,
Related name
  • Scilla nervosa
  • Scilla gerrardi
  • Ornithogalum nervosum
  • Scilla rigidifolia
  • Scilla eriospermoides
  • Amaryllis unrecorded

Flora

Entry for SCILLA nervosa (Burch.) Jessop [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: Brita Stedje, Ph.D.
Names
SCILLA nervosa (Burch.) Jessop [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 36: 243 (1970). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, “ between Griquatown and Witte Water”, Burchell 1968 (K, holo.!)
Ornithogalum nervosum Burch. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Trav. Intern. Southern Afr. 1: 537 (1822)
Scilla rigidifolia Kunth [family HYACINTHACEAE], Enum. Pl. 4: 330 (1843); Baker in F.T.A. 7: 549 (1898). Type: South Africa, Cape, Drège 4560b (K, holo.!)
Scilla setifera Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in F.T.A. 7: 549 (1898). Type: Tanzania, Bukoba District, Karagwe, Ihangiro, Stuhlmann 911A (K, holo.!)
Information
Plants usually robust up to 50 cm. Bulb up to 8 cm. in diameter. Leaves lanceolate with articulated vascular bundles, up to 38 cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide. Scape and pedicels pubescent; pedicels 5-13 mm. long in flower, somewhat longer in fruit; bracts up to 11 mm., occasionally pubescent. Perianth-segments white, greenish-white, pink to blue often with a green or dark midrib, 3-5 mm. Filaments and anthers often bluish. Filaments free or united with each other at the base, free part 2-3 mm. long; anthers ± 1.5 mm. long. Ovary ± 1.5 mm. long; style 1.5-3 mm. long. Capsule ± 4 mm. high, 6 mm. wide. Seeds black, few per capsule, somewhat turgid and irregularly folded to subglobose, ± 2 mm.
Range
DISTR. T 1, 4, 5, 7, 8;
Altitude range
900-2570 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Kigoma District Usinge [Ussinge] Mbuga, 2 Dec. 1950, Shabani 4!;TANZANIA Mpanda District Mpanda-Ikola road, ± 130 km. from Mpanda, 31 Oct. 1959, Richards 11682!;TANZANIA Ufipa District Mbisi, 11 Nov. 1949, Bullock 1845!
Distribution (external)
Malawi
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Angola
Botswana
South Africa

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