Entry for HESSEA spiralis Baker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
HESSEA spiralisBaker [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Handb. Amaryllid. 22, non Berg.
Strumaria spiralisZeyher [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], exsic. non Ait.
Information
bulb globose, 1/2 in. diam., with membranous tunics produced an inch above its neck; leaves produced after the flowers, filiform, glabrous; peduncle 2–4 in. long, very slender, spirally twisted; flowers 2–8; pedicels slender, 1–2 in. long; perianth-limb 1/6 in. long, pale reddish; segments oblong-lanceolate; stamens nearly as long as the perianth segments; ovary green, globose; style as long as the stamens, cylindrical from an ovoid base; capsule depresso-globose, membranous, deeply 3-lobed. null
Distribution
WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Hardeveld, Zeyher, 1662!
