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Hessea stellaris

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Name

Identification
Hessea stellaris (Jacq.) Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HESSEA stellaris 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
HESSEA stellaris Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryll. 289;—Kunth, Enum. v. 630; Baker, Handb. Amaryll. 21.
Amaryllis stellaris Jacq. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 37, t. 71; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 61; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 229.
Strumaria stellaris Gawl. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1363; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 790.
HESSEA crispa Kunth [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Enum. v. 632, excl. syn.
Amaryllis pulchella Spreng. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], in herb. Zeyher.
Periphanes stellaris Salisb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Gen. 118.
Information
bulb subglobose, 3/4–1 in. diam., with a long neck and brown or pale membranous tunics; leaves 2, produced after the scape, lorate, glabrous, 6–12 in. long; scape lateral, 3–9 in. long, stout, for the genus; flowers 6–30; pedicels 1–2 in. long; spathe-valves lanceolate, green; perianth-segments oblong, crisped, purplish-red, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; stamens half as long as the perianth-segments; ovary globose, 1/8– 1/6 in. diam.; style slender, not swollen, subulate, not dilated at the base. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Near Cape Town; on the Lions Rump, Burchell, 8444! and on sand-dunes, Bolus, 4012! Cape Flats, near Claremont, MacOwan, 2567! and near Wynberg, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 297!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Zeyher!

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