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HYPOXIS villosa Linn. f. [family HYPOXIDACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 376, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
HYPOXIS villosa Linn. f. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Suppl. 198. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 314; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 113; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 170.
HYPOXIS villosa Hook. f. var. foliis recurvis [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 223.
HYPOXIS petitiana A. Rich. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 315.
HYPOXIS abyssinica Hochst. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in. Flora, 1844, 32.
HYPOXIS simenensis Hochst. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in. Flora, 1844, 32.
HYPOXIS sobolifera Jacq. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Ic. t. 372; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 110.
Information
Tuber perennial, 1–1 1/2 in. diam., crowned with copious bristles. Leaves 6–20 to a tuber, lanceolate, erect or falcate, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/2–1 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the point, more or less hairy, especially beneath. Peduncles often 3–4 to a tuber, hairy, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 4–8 in a lax corymb; pedicels very hairy, ascending, 1/2–1 in. long; bracts large, linear-subulate. Perianth-segments yellow, about 1/2 in. long; outer very hairy outside. Stamens half as long as the perianth; anthers sagittate at the base, longer than the filaments. Ovary obconic, densely villous. Capsule turbinate, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, circumscissile round the middle.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, at Blantyre, Buchanan, 26! Scott! Scott-Elliot, 8579! Magomero, Meller! Fort Young, Nicholson!Matabeleland Mozamb. Dist. Oates!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre, summit of Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 172! and without precise locality, Schimper, 539!British East Africa Nile Land Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1874! East side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8074! Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7799! Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 6467! Taita; Ndi Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2542!Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountains, 7500 ft., Mann, 1224!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 376, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
HYPOXIS villosa Linn. f. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Suppl. 198. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 314; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 113; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 170.
HYPOXIS villosa Hook. f. var. foliis recurvis [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 223.
HYPOXIS petitiana A. Rich. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 315.
HYPOXIS abyssinica Hochst. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in. Flora, 1844, 32.
HYPOXIS simenensis Hochst. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in. Flora, 1844, 32.
HYPOXIS sobolifera Jacq. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Ic. t. 372; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 110.
Information
Tuber perennial, 1–1 1/2 in. diam., crowned with copious bristles. Leaves 6–20 to a tuber, lanceolate, erect or falcate, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/2–1 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the point, more or less hairy, especially beneath. Peduncles often 3–4 to a tuber, hairy, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 4–8 in a lax corymb; pedicels very hairy, ascending, 1/2–1 in. long; bracts large, linear-subulate. Perianth-segments yellow, about 1/2 in. long; outer very hairy outside. Stamens half as long as the perianth; anthers sagittate at the base, longer than the filaments. Ovary obconic, densely villous. Capsule turbinate, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, circumscissile round the middle.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, at Blantyre, Buchanan, 26! Scott! Scott-Elliot, 8579! Magomero, Meller! Fort Young, Nicholson!Matabeleland Mozamb. Dist. Oates!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre, summit of Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 172! and without precise locality, Schimper, 539!British East Africa Nile Land Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1874! East side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8074! Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7799! Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 6467! Taita; Ndi Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2542!Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountains, 7500 ft., Mann, 1224!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 376, (1898) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
HYPOXIS villosa Linn. f. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Suppl. 198. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 314; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 113; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 170.
HYPOXIS villosa Hook. f. var. foliis recurvis [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 223.
HYPOXIS petitiana A. Rich. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 315.
HYPOXIS abyssinica Hochst. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in. Flora, 1844, 32.
HYPOXIS simenensis Hochst. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], in. Flora, 1844, 32.
HYPOXIS sobolifera Jacq. [family HYPOXIDACEAE], Ic. t. 372; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 110.
Information
Tuber perennial, 1–1 1/2 in. diam., crowned with copious bristles. Leaves 6–20 to a tuber, lanceolate, erect or falcate, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/2–1 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the point, more or less hairy, especially beneath. Peduncles often 3–4 to a tuber, hairy, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 4–8 in a lax corymb; pedicels very hairy, ascending, 1/2–1 in. long; bracts large, linear-subulate. Perianth-segments yellow, about 1/2 in. long; outer very hairy outside. Stamens half as long as the perianth; anthers sagittate at the base, longer than the filaments. Ovary obconic, densely villous. Capsule turbinate, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, circumscissile round the middle.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, at Blantyre, Buchanan, 26! Scott! Scott-Elliot, 8579! Magomero, Meller! Fort Young, Nicholson!Matabeleland Mozamb. Dist. Oates!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre, summit of Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 172! and without precise locality, Schimper, 539!British East Africa Nile Land Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1874! East side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8074! Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7799! Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 6467! Taita; Ndi Mountain, Hildebrandt, 2542!Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountains, 7500 ft., Mann, 1224!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
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