Entry for ALBUCA namaquensis 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 namaquensisBaker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Information
bulb small; rudimentary leaves many, membranous; leaves 10–12, subterete, 4–6 in. long, densely pubescent, spirally twisted at the tip; peduncle 6–9 in. long; raceme lax, 4–8 in. long; pedicels erecto-patent, lower 2 in. long; bracts oblong-cuspidate, lower an inch long; perianth 5/8– 7/8 in. long, probably yellow; outer segments brown in the central half; outer anthers rudimentary; filaments flattened; style prismatic, as long as the ovary. null
