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Albuca fastigiata

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Name

Identification
Albuca fastigiata Dryand. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Albuca fastigiata

Flora

Entry for ALBUCA fastigiata Dryand. [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
ALBUCA fastigiata Dryand. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 1784, 296;—Thunb. Prodr. 65; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 331; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 101; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 450; Red. Lil. t. 474; Bot. Reg. t. 277; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 498; Kunth, Enum. iv. 375; Baker in Ref. Bot. t. 44; Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 287.
Falconera fastigiata Salisb. [family ], Gen. 36.
Information
bulb globose, 2–3 in. diam.; tunics not splitting into fibres at the top; leaves 5–6, linear, glabrous, comparatively firm in texture, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad low down, acuminate; peduncle much shorter than the leaves; raceme few-flowered, corymbose; pedicels ascending or spreading, lower 4–5 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3/4–1 in. long; flowers inodorous, permanently erect; perianth 3/4–1 in. long, white, broadly banded with green, fading to reddish-brown; stamens all fertile; style prismatic, as long as the ovary; stamens conic, subentire. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Var. β, Somerset Div.; sides of the Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1832!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimens collected by Cooper! and from the Goodenough Herbarium!

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