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Amaryllis belladonna

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Identification
Amaryllis belladonna L. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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  • Amaryllis belladonna

Flora

Entry for AMARYLLIS Belladonna Linn. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
AMARYLLIS Belladonna Linn. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. edit. 2, 421;—L'Herit. Sert. Angl. 12; Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 417; Bot. Mag. t. 733; Red. Lil. t. 180; Herb. Amaryll. 275; Salisb. Gen. 117; Kunth, Enum. v. 601; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 95.
AMARYLLIS rosea Lam. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Encyc. i. 122.
Callicore rosea Link [family ], Handb. i. 193.
AMARYLLIS pallida Red. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Lil. t. 479.
AMARYLLIS pudica Gawl. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Journ. Sci. & Arts ii. 348.
Coburgia Belladonna Herb. [family ], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2113.
Coburgia pudica Herb. [family ], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2113.
Coburgia pallida Herb. [family ], in Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. 181.
Information
bulb the size of a swan's egg; tunics fibroso-membranous; leaves 7–9, produced after the flowers, lorate, bifarious, dull green, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; scape a foot or more long, solid, compressed; flowers 6–12 in an umbel, produced in spring in a wild state; pedicels 1–1 1/2 in. long; spathe-valves 2, large, deltoid; perianth rose-red or whitish, 3–3 1/2 in. long; tube under 1/2 in. long; segments permanently connivent, oblong, acute, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad above the middle; stamens rather shorter than the limb; ovary green, oblong; style as long as the limb; capsule globose, membranous, about 1 in. diam. null
Distribution
COAST REGION near Cape Town, on the sides of mountains, MacOwan, 2561! Camps Bay, Burchell, 857! Cape Flats near Wynberg, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 296! near Bredasdorp, Kitching!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!
Notes
A. pallida, Red., figured also in Bot. Reg. t. 714, is a form with whitish flowers. Hæmanthus longifolius, Hort. Nymph., mentioned in Kunth, Enum. v. 600, is a spurious species made up from a mixture of Amaryllis with Crinum variabile.

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