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Albuca viscosa

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Albuca viscosa
Type of Albuca viscosa L.f. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Albuca viscosa
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Identification
Albuca viscosa L.f. [family HYACINTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Unknown,
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Flora

Entry for ALBUCA viscosa 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 viscosa Linn. fil. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Suppl. 196;—Dryand. in Vet. Acad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 1784, 297; Thunb. Prodr. 65; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 331; Jacq. Coll. Suppl. 99; Ic. ii. 21, t. 445; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 103; Kunth, Enum. iv. 377; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 289.
Falconera viscosa Salisb. [family ], Gen. 36.
Information
bulb ovoid, 1–1 1/2 in. diam.; tunics not splitting into fibres at the apex; leaves numerous, nearly subulate, deeply channelled down the face, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/12– 1/6 in. broad, clothed with copious, persistent, sessile glands; peduncle about a foot long, slender, viscose; raceme laxly 6–12-flowered; pedicels ascending, cernuous at the apex; lower 1–2 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate; flowers inodorous; perianth 3/4 in. long, white, banded with green; stamens all fertile; style prismatic, as long as the ovary; stigmas conical, entire. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Mossel Bay Div.; between Hartenbosch and Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6222!

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