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Albuca spiralis

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Name

Identification
Albuca odoratissima Dinter [family LILIACEAE ] Verified by Sölch, A., Albuca spiralis L.f. [family LILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Albuca odoratissima
  • Albuca spiralis
  • Albuca namaquensis

Flora

Entry for ALBUCA spiralis Linn. fil. [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 spiralis Linn. fil. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Suppl. 196;—Thunb. in Vet. Acad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 1786, 59, t. 2, fig. 1; Prodr. 65; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 331; Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 100; Ic. ii. 20, t. 439; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 104; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 503; Kunth, Enum. iv. 377; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 289.
Falconera spiralis Salisb. [family ], Gen. 36.
Information
bulb small, ovoid; tunics not splitting into fibres at the top; leaves 10–12, subterete, 6–9 in. long, channelled down the face, circinate at the apex, densely glandular-pubescent; peduncle slender, 6–8 in. long; raceme laxly 4–6-flowered; pedicels cernuous at the apex, lower 3/4–1 in. long; bracts lanceolate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; flowers inodorous; perianth 5/8– 3/4 in. long, yellow, banded with green; stamens all fertile; style prismatic, as long as the ovary; stigma tricuspidate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; summit of Riebeks Castle, Thunberg.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Harvey!
Notes
Not in Kew Herbarium.

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