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Veltheimia capensis

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Name

Identification
Veltheimia capensis (L.) DC. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Veltheimia capensis

Flora

Entry for VELTHEIMIA viridifolia Jacq. [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
VELTHEIMIA viridifolia Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 41, t. 78;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 181; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1245; Kunth, Enum. iv. 281; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 411.
Aletris capensis Linn. [family MELANTHIACEAE], Sp. Plant. ed. 2,456; Mant. 367; Thunb. Prodr. 60; Bot. Mag. t. 501.
VELTHEIMIA undulata Moench [family HYACINTHACEAE], Meth. 631.
VELTHEIMIA capensis Thunb. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 309; Red. Lil. iv. t. 193.
Information
bulb ovoid, 2–3 in. diam.; leaves oblong-lorate, green, membranous, finally a foot long, 2–3 in. broad at the middle; peduncle 1–1 1/2 ft. long, terete, green, mottled with purple; raceme very dense, 3–6 in. long; pedicels very short; bracts half as long as the flowers; perianth 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, yellow or tinged with red; segments 1/6 in. long; stamens 1/2 in. long, not protruded out of the tube; capsule 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long, with valves an inch broad. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Sand hills near Port Elizabeth, Burchell, Bulb 67! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1831!

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