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Amaryllis coranica

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Identification
Amaryllis coranica Ker Gawl. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for AMMOCHARIS falcata Herb. [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
AMMOCHARIS falcata Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], App. 17; Amaryll. 241;—Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 96.
Amaryllis falcata L'Herit. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Sert. Angl. 13; Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 418.
Hæmanthus falcatus Thunb. [family ], Prodr. 58; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 297.
Crinum falcatum Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Vind. iii. 34, t. 60.
AMMOCHARIS coranica Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], App. 17; Amaryllid. 241, t. 44, fig. 22; Kunth, Enum. v. 613.
Amaryllis coranica Burchell [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Bot. Reg. t. 139 and t. 1219 (var. pallida).
Palinetes falcata Salisb. [family ], Gen. 116.
Palinetes coranica Salisb. [family ], Gen. 116.
Information
bulb ovoid, reaching a diameter of 6–9 in., not produced into a neck; tunics very numerous, brown, membranous; leaves 6–12, bifarious, lorate, spreading, produced before the flowers, in summer or autumn, reaching a length of 1–2 ft., about an inch broad, green, glabrous; peduncle stout, lateral, ancipitous, 1/2–1 ft. long; flowers 20–40 in an umbel, fragrant, bright red, produced in December in the wild plant; pedicels 1–1 1/2 in. long; spathe-valves 2, large, deltoid, perianth-tube 1/2 in. long; segments 1 1/2–2 in. long, narrowed gradually into a filiform claw, reflexing at the top; ovary 1/3 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Beaufort West Div.; Nieuwveld Mountains, 3000–5000 ft., Drège, 8543! Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 2800 ft., MacOwan, 1815! meadows near Somerset East, MacOwan, 1850! Albert Div.; by the Orange River, Burke!COAST REGION near Cape Town, Thunberg! Uitenhage Div.; Coega River, MacOwan, 1850! Cathcart Div.; Blesbok Flats, near Windvogel Mountain, 3000 ft., Drège, 8544!EASTERN REGION Natal; Pietermaritzburg and Mooi River Valley, 2000–3000 ft., Sutherland!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Klip Fontein, Burchell, 2638! Orange Free State; by the Caledon River, Burke! Bechuanaland; between Hamapery, near Kuruman and Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 2532!

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