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Albuca physodes

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Identification
Albuca physodes Ker Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
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  • Albuca physodes

Flora

Entry for URGINEA physodes 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
URGINEA physodes Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 217
Anthericum physodes Jacq. [family ANTHERICACEAE], Collect. Suppl. 94; Ic. ii. 18, t. 418; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 147; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 473.
Albuca physodes Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 1046.
Cæsia physodes Spreng. [family ], Syst. ii. 88.
Information
bulb large, globose, solid, purplish on the outside; leaves 6–9, produced long after the flowers, lanceolate, glabrous, 6–9 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad; peduncle terete, purplish, 1/2 ft. long; raceme moderately dense, many-flowered, 3–5 in. long, 2 in. diam.; pedicels subpatent, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; bracts small, ovate, concave, not distinctly spurred; perianth whitish, 1/4 in. long; segments oblong, keeled with purple; filaments papillose, shorter than the perianth; capsule ovoid, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; seeds about 2 in a cell. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality.
Notes
Known to me only from the figures cited.

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