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Watsonia rosea

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Name

Identification
Watsonia rosea Ker Gawl. [family IRIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Watsonia rosea

Flora

Entry for WATSONIA rosea Ker [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 rosea Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 230;—Bot. Mag. t. 1072; Gen. Irid. 125; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, i. 94; Baker, Handb. Irid. 177.
Neuberia rosea Eckl. [family ], Top. Verz. 37.
Gladiolus pyramidatus Andr. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 335.
Gladiolus iridifolius Jacq. var. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 235.
WATSONIA striata Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], Ergänz. 18.
Gladiolus sceptrum Forster [family IRIDACEAE], MSS.
Information
corm large, globose; tunics thick, fibrous; basal leaves ensiform, rigid in texture, reaching a length of 2–3 ft. and a breadth of 1–2 inches; stems 4–6 ft. long including the inflorescence, usually much branched; spikes lax or rather dense, the end one 1/2–1 ft. long, the others shorter; spathe-valves oblong-lanceolate, acute, brown, rigid, 3/4 in. long; perianth bright rose-red; tube 1–1 1/4 in. long, dilated into a broad funnel in the upper third; segments oblong-spathulate, cuspidate, as long as the tube; stamens and style reaching halfway up the perianth-segments. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Table Mountain, MacOwan, 2556! MacGillivray, 482! Simons Bay, Milne! between Simonsberg and Ban Hoek, Rogers! Paarl Mountains, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Stockenstrom Div.; Katberg, Hutton! Mrs. Barber, 3!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Pilgrims Rest, Roe in Herb. Bolus, 2655! Zoutpansberg Div., Houtbosch Berg, Rehmann, 5778! 5779!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Grey! Thom, 955! Forster!
Notes
Habit and leaf of W. Meriana, from which it differs in the shorter tube and larger segments of its perianth.

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