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Amaryllis purpurea

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Name

Identification
Amaryllis purpurea Ait. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Amaryllis purpurea

Flora

Entry for VALLOTA purpurea 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
VALLOTA purpurea Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], App. 29;—Herb. Amaryllid. 134, 414, t. 31, fig. 15, t. 1, fig. 52; Kunth, Enum. v. 531; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 53.
Amaryllis purpurea Ait. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 417; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1430.
Amaryllis speciosa L'Herit. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Sert. 12.
Crinum speciosum Linn. fil. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Suppl. 195; Thunb. Prodr. 59.
Cyrtanthus purpureus Herb. [family ], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2113.
Amaryllis elata Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 32, t. 62.
Vallota elata Roem. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryllid. 110.
Information
bulb ovoid, with brown membranous tunics; leaves 6–18, subdistichous, developed with the flowers, lorate, green, finally 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad, dying down in autumn; peduncle 2–3 ft. long, slightly compressed, subterete, hollow, glaucous; flowers 6–9 to an umbel, bright scarlet; pedicels 1–2 in. long; spathe-valves oblong-lanceolate, 2–3 in. long; perianth erect, with a greenish tube 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, 3/4 in. diam. at the throat, the divisions about 2 in. long and 1 in. broad; stamens less than an inch shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers oblong, 1/6 in. long; ovary oblong-triquetrous, 1/3– 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Hartequas Kloof, Thunberg! on the Post Berg, near George, Burchell, 5949–2!

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