Entry for TULBAGHIA natalensis Baker [family ALLIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
TULBAGHIA natalensisBaker [family ALLIACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1891, ix. 668
Information
leaves 6–8 to a tuft, linear, bright green, 1/2–1 ft. long at the flowering time, channelled down the face, with an alliaceous scent when broken; scape terete, above a foot long; umbel 6–10-flowered; pedicels 1/4– 1/2 in. long; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, an inch long; perianth white, tube campanulate, 1/6 in. long; segments obovate, half as long again as the tube; corona greenish-white, half as long as the perianth-segments, deeply lobed; anthers reaching halfway up the corona. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal, described from a living plant in May, 1891, sent to Kew by Mr. J. M. Wood.
