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Watsonia natalensis

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Filed as Watsonia natalensis Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE]

Type? of Watsonia natalensis Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE]

Holotype of Watsonia natalensis Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE]

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Watsonia natalensis Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by [Ecklon, C.F.], Gladiolus natalensis (Eckl.) Reinw. ex Hook. [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Lewis, G.J., 1965 Gladiolus dalenii Van Geel [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Gladiolus psittacinus Hook.f. [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for GLADIOLUS psittacinus Hook. [family IRIDACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).

GLADIOLUS psittacinus Hook. [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 3032;—Bot. Reg. t. 1442; Reich. Exot. t. 116; Baker, Handb. Irid. 220.

GLADIOLUS natalensis Reinw. ex Hook. [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 3084; Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 281; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1756.

Watsonia natalensis Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE], Top. Verz. 34.

corm very large, depresso-globose; tunics of parallel strands of matted fibres; produced leaves about 4, ensiform, rigid in texture, 1–2 ft. long, 1–2 in. broad; stem 3–4 ft. long including the inflorescence; spike very lax, reaching a foot or more in length; spathe-valves green, oblong-lanceolate, 2–3 in. long; perianth-tube curved, 1 1/2–2 in. long, subcylindrical in the upper half; limb about equalling the tube; upper segments obovate, dark crimson, hooded, 3/4–1 in. broad; lower segments much smaller, reflexing at the top, red and yellow mixed; stamens reaching nearly to the tip of the segments; anthers 1/2 in. long; filaments about 1 1/2 in. long; capsule large, oblong. null

CENTRAL REGION Albert Div., Cooper, 689! Aliwal North Div.; on the Witte Bergen, 4500–5000 ft., Drège, 3502! Var. β, Somerset Div., Bowker!EASTERN REGION Natal, Cooper, 3189! Buchanan! Var. β, Gueinzius! Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, 3000 ft., Baur, 461!KALAHARI REGION VAR. β, Transvaal; Lomatie Valley near Barberton, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1192! Orange Free State; Riet River, Burke, 87!