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Watsonia densiflora

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Identification
Watsonia densiflora Baker [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Entry for WATSONIA densiflora Baker [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
WATSONIA densiflora Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1876, 336;—Bot. Mag. t. 6400; Handb. Irid. 176; Klatt, Ergänz. 18.
Information
corm globose, 1 in. diam.; tunics of parallel strands of matted fibres; stems simple, terete, erect, 2–3 ft. long including the inflorescence; basal leaves 4–6, rigidly coriaceous, ensiform, 2–3 ft. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; flowers 40–50, arranged in a dense spike 1 ft. long, all imbricated; outer spathe-valve oblong-lanceolate, acute, brown, rigid, 1 in. long; perianth bright rose-red, rarely white; tube curved, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, narrowly funnel-shaped in the upper half, 1/3 in. diam. at the throat; segments of the limb oblong, cuspidate, 3/4 in. long; style not reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments; anthers 1/3 in. long, just protruded from the perianth-tube. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 538! Rodeborough, 4000 ft., Miss   Armstrong! without precise locality, Plant, 29! Cooper, 3186! Pondoland; between Umtata R. and St. John's R., 1000–2000 ft., Drège, 4536!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 3500–5000 ft., Galpin, 813! Orange Free State, Cooper, 886!
Notes
Mr. J. M. Wood sends a fine form with pure white flowers, which flowered for the first time at Kew in September, 1891.

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