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Streptanthera cuprea

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Identification
Streptanthera cuprea Sweet [family IRIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Streptanthera cuprea

Flora

Entry for STREPTANTHERA cuprea Sweet [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
STREPTANTHERA cuprea Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501;—Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. ii. t. 122; Paxt. Mag. i. 8, cum icone; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 93; Handb. Irid. 160; Klatt, Ergänz. 56.
Sparaxis cuprea Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], in Linnæa xxxv. 378.
Information
habit, corms and leaves as in S. elegans; peduncle shorter than the leaves, 2–4-flowered; spathe 1/2– 3/4 in. long; perianth 1 in. long, copper-yellow, with a purple throat bordered with black and a yellow spot in the centre; stamens less than half as long as the limb, the anthers equalling the connivent filaments. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Known only from the plant figured, which flowered in Mr. Colville's nursery in 1838.

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