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Albuca vittata

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Name

Identification
Albuca vittata Ker Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Albuca vittata

Flora

Entry for ORNITHOGALUM vittatum Kunth [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
ORNITHOGALUM vittatum Kunth [family HYACINTHACEAE], Enum. iv. 367;—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 278.
Albuca vittata Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 1329; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 500.
Tæniola vittata Salisb. [family ], Gen. 35.
Information
bulb globose, 1 in. diam.; leaves 6–8, subterete, glaucous green, 6–9 in. long, channelled down the face, distinctly keeled with white; peduncle slender, stiffly erect, 6–9 in. long; raceme laxly 4–12-flowered; pedicels cernuous at the apex, lower 1/2– 3/4 in. long; bracts linear from an ovate base, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; perianth yellow, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; segments 1/6– 1/8 in. broad, distinctly keeled; stamens more than half as long as the perianth; alternate filaments lanceolate and tricuspidate; style twice as long as the ovary, 1/4– 1/3 in. long. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA without locality, cultivated specimens!
Notes
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in June, 1878.

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