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Amaryllis flexuosa

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Name

Identification
Amaryllis flexuosa Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for NERINE flexuosa 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
NERINE flexuosa Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], App. 19;—Herb. Amaryllid. 283; Kunth, Enum. v. 619; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 100.
Amaryllis flexuosa Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 35, t. 67; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 60; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 229; Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 172.
Information
bulb subglobose, 1 1/2 in. diam.; leaves 4–6, contemporary with the flowers, linear-lorate, arcuate, bright green, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad, sometimes rough with pustules on the surfaces; peduncle slender, subterete, slightly glaucous, flexuose, sometimes 2–3 ft. long; flowers 10–20 in a centripetal umbel; pedicels slender, 1–2 in. long; spathe-valves lanceolate, as long as the pedicels; perianth-limb generally pale pink, 1–1 1/4 in. long, cut down very nearly to the ovary; segments crisped, oblanceolate, 1/6 in. broad; stamens declinate, the 3 longer ones rather shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers oblong, claret-red, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; ovary globose-trigonous, 1/6 in. diam.; style declinate, as long as the stamens. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; lower part of Bruintjes Hoogte, Burchell, 2989! and on mountain tops, 4400 ft., Bolus, 2202! Var. γ, Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 1549!KALAHARI REGION Var. β, Transvaal, Sanderson!

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