Entry for URGINEA macrocentra Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
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
URGINEA macrocentraBaker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 702
Information
bulb large, globose; leaf single, terete, 1 1/2 ft. long, 1/6 in. diam.; peduncle stout, terete, rather glaucous, 2 1/2–3 ft. long; raceme dense, 5–6 in. long; pedicels ascending, the lower 1/2 in. long; lower bracts with a convolute spur 3/4–1 in. long; perianth 1/6 in. long; segments white with a brown keel, oblanceolate-oblong; stamens shorter than the perianth; anthers brown, oblong; style short. null
