URGINEA altissima Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
URGINEA altissima Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 221
Ornithogalum altissimum Linn. fil. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Suppl. 199; Thunb. Prodr. 62; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 315; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 119; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 521; Kunth, Enum. iv. 357.
Ornithogalum giganteum Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 45, t. 87.
Drimia altissima Gawl. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 1074.
Information
bulb very large, globose; leaves hysteranthous, lanceolate, glabrous, 1–1 1/2 ft. long, 2–3 in. broad; peduncle stout, sometimes 3–4 ft. long; raceme cylindrical, moderately dense, sometimes 2–3 ft. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. diam.; lower pedicels patent, 1/2–1 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate, bent and obscurely spurred below the middle; perianth campanulate, 1/3 in. long; segments oblanceolate-oblong, whitish, with a dull brown keel; stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments slightly flattened; anthers oblong, 1/12 in. long; style 1/6 in. long; capsule small, globose, obtusely trigonous. null
Range
Also Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 649!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Ecklon and Zeyher, 608! between Bethels-dorp and Uitenhage, Burchell, 4403!
URGINEA altissima Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE]
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