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DRIMIA elata Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
DRIMIA elata Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Collect. Suppl. 38; Ic. ii. 15, t. 373;—Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 165; Red. Lil. t. 430; Bot. Mag. t. 822; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 597; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 422. Hyacinthus elatus Poir. [family HYACINTHACEAE], Encyc. Suppl. iii. 120. Idothea elata Kunth [family ], Enum. iv. 343. Drimia concolor Baker [family HYACINTHACEAE], loc. cit.
Information
bulb globose, about 3 in. diam.; tunics brown, imbricated; leaves 5–6, produced after the flowers, lanceolate, glaucescent, glabrous, suberect, a foot or more long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; peduncle stiffly erect, 1 1/2–2 ft. long; raceme moderately dense, cylindrical, 1/2–1 1/2 ft. long, 1 1/2–2 in. diam.; lower pedicels about 1/2 in. long; bracts lanceolate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; perianth 1/2– 5/8 in. long, greenish-purple; tube campanulate, 1/6 in. long; segments canaliculate, reflexing; stamens a little shorter than the perianth-segments; style reaching the tip of the perianth-segments; capsule subglobose, deeply lobed laterally, 1/2– 5/8 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div., Bachmann, 1033! Cape Flats, near Rose-bank, below 100 ft., Bolus, 3922! Stockenstrom Div.; summit of Chumie Peak, Scully, 166!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; hillsides, Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 418! Natal; Umsondus River, Rehmann, 7632! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 464! Buchanan! Mrs. K. Saunders!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; Caledon River, Burke!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1713!
DRIMIA elata Jacq. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
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