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Androcymbium striatum

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Name

Identification
Androcymbium striatum Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family COLCHICACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ANDROCYMBIUM melanthioides Baker var. striatum [family COLCHICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 421, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
ANDROCYMBIUM melanthioides Baker var. striatum [family COLCHICACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 442.
ANDROCYMBIUM striatum Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family COLCHICACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 336; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 159.
Information
Corm ovoid, 1/2– 3/4 in. diam.; tunics firm, blackish. Stem erect, 2–3 in. long, bearing 2–3 ascending glabrous linear or lanceolate leaves, 3–4 in. long. Flowers few in a cluster; pedicels short, erect; bracts few, ovate-cuspidate or oblong, 1 in. long, whitish, veined with green. Perianth whitish, 1/2 in. long; blade of the segments oblong-lanceolate, longer than the claws. Stamens shortly exserted.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Blantyre, Buchanan, 24! Mount Sochi, Scott-Elliot, 8608! Mount Malosa, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Zomba, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte!Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; in meadows near Enjedcap, Schimper, 1338! and without precise locality, Schimper, 323!British East Africa Nile Land Kikuyu; at Ngoro, 6000 ft., Höhnel! and between Lake Victoria Nyanza and Lake Baringo, at Ligaiyo, Fischer, 622 (ex Engler).

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