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Synnotia bicolor

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Name

Identification
Synnotia bicolor Pole-Evans [family IRIDACEAE ]
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  • Synnotia bicolor

Flora

Entry for SYNNOTIA bicolor 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
SYNNOTIA bicolor Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501;—Klatt in Linnæa xxxii. 750; Baker, Handb. Irid. 198.
Gladiolus bicolor Thunb. [family IRIDACEAE], Diss. No. 16, t. 2, fig. 1; Prodr. 8; Fl. Cap. i. 197; Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 25; Ic. t. 240.
Sparaxis bicolor Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 225.
Sparaxis galeata Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], loc. cit.
Gladiolus galeatus Jacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 258.
Information
corm ovoid, 1/2 in. diam.; tunics thick, pale, strongly honeycombed; stems 1/2–1 1/2 ft. long including inflorescence, simple or branched; leaves about 6 in a distichous basal rosette, ensiform, thin in texture, 3–6 in. long; flowers 2–6 in very lax spikes; spathe-valves ovate, membranous, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, green at the base, brown and subscariose upwards, deeply lacerated; perianth-tube cylindrical, 1/2 in. long, dilated into a broad funnel at the top; limb 3/4–1 in. long, yellow, more or less flushed with violet; stamens reaching halfway up the upper segment. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Lion Mountain, 800 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 798! Paarl Mts., Drège, 8347! Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof, Thunberg! Ecklon and Zeyher, 239!SOUTH AFRICA without locality. Var. β, Roxburgh!

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