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Albuca flaccida

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Name

Identification
Albuca cooperi Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Unknown, Albuca flaccida Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] Verified by Unknown,
Related name
  • Albuca collina
  • Albuca flaccida
  • Albuca cooperi

Flora

Entry for ALBUCA flaccida 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
ALBUCA flaccida Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. iv. 201; Ic. ii. 21, t. 444;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 99; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 496; Kunth, Enum. iv. 374; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 287, ex parte, non Ref. Bot. t. 334.
Information
bulb small, ovoid; tunics membranous, not splitting into fibres at the tip; leaves about 4, linear, glabrous, erect, flaccid, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad low down; peduncle slender, 1–1 1/2 ft. long; raceme lax, many-flowered, 1/2 ft. long; pedicels spreading, cernuous at the tip; lower 1 1/2–2 in. long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 1–1 1/2 in. long; flowers inodorous; perianth 3/4–1 in. long, pale yellow, broadly banded with green; outer stamens sterile; style prismatic, longer than the ovary; stigma entire. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Known to me only from Jacquin's figure and description.

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