Entry for ALBUCA juncifolia Baker [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 juncifoliaBaker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1876, v. 534;—Bot. Mag. t. 6395.
Information
bulb globose, an inch in diameter; tunics membranous, not splitting into fibres at the top; leaves 6–10, terete, erect, bright green, 6–15 in. long, deeply channelled down the face, glabrous when mature, obscurely pubescent in an early stage; peduncle slender, terete, glaucous, about a foot long; raceme lax, few-flowered; pedicels cernuous at the tip, lower 1–1 1/2 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; flowers inodorous; perianth 3/4 in. long, pale yellow, banded with green; outer stamens sterile; style prismatic, as long as the ovary. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; on mountain ridges along the lower part of the Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4196!
Notes
Described from a living plant from Mr. Hutton that flowered at Kew in March, 1876.
