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Strumaria truncata

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Name

Identification
Strumaria truncata Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for STRUMARIA truncata Jacq. [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
STRUMARIA truncata Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Ic. ii. t. 357;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 31; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 212; Herb. Amaryllid. 288, t. 29, fig. 11; Kunth, Enum. v. 623; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 104.
Hæmanthus vaginatus Thunb. [family ], Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 297.
Hessea vaginata Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryllid. 289; Kunth, Enum. v. 634.
Hymenetron truncatum Salisb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Gen. 128.
Information
bulb globose, 1 in. diam., with pale brown tunics produced an inch over its top; leaves 3–6, erect, lorate, obtuse, about 1/2 ft. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad, enclosed at the base in a funnel-shaped, truncate, membranous, brown sheath, about 2 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. diam. at the throat; peduncle slender, about a foot long; flowers 6–15 in an umbel, inodorous; pedicels 1–1 1/2 in. long; spathe-valves cuspidate, greenish, shorter than the pedicels; perianth-segments oblanceolate, plane, pinkish, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; stamens distinctly exserted, joined to one another and to the style towards the base; anthers 1/24 in. long; style as long as the stamens, dilated towards the base. null
Distribution
WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Hardeveld, Thunberg! Zeyher, 1660! Rhenoster Fontein, Masson!

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