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NERINE Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
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
NERINE Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 728.
Imhofia Heist. [family ]
Information
Perianth funnel-shaped, cut down nearly or quite to the ovary, erect or rather decurved; segments equal, oblanceolate, falcate, usually more or less crisped. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth-segments; filaments filiform, thickened at the base, suberect or declinate, 3 shorter; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary globose, 3-lobed; ovules few in a cell, superposed; style filiform, straight or declinate; stigma obscurely tricuspidate. Capsule globose, deeply 3-lobed, membranous. Seeds 1 or few in a cell, globose. —Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves usually linear, produced with or a little after the flowers. Umbels few or many-flowered; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate. Flowers pale or deep red.
Range
Species 15, all South African.
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
NERINE Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 728.
Imhofia Heist. [family ]
Information
Perianth funnel-shaped, cut down nearly or quite to the ovary, erect or rather decurved; segments equal, oblanceolate, falcate, usually more or less crisped. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth-segments; filaments filiform, thickened at the base, suberect or declinate, 3 shorter; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary globose, 3-lobed; ovules few in a cell, superposed; style filiform, straight or declinate; stigma obscurely tricuspidate. Capsule globose, deeply 3-lobed, membranous. Seeds 1 or few in a cell, globose. —Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves usually linear, produced with or a little after the flowers. Umbels few or many-flowered; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate. Flowers pale or deep red.
Range
Species 15, all South African.
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
NERINE Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 728.
Imhofia Heist. [family ]
Information
Perianth funnel-shaped, cut down nearly or quite to the ovary, erect or rather decurved; segments equal, oblanceolate, falcate, usually more or less crisped. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth-segments; filaments filiform, thickened at the base, suberect or declinate, 3 shorter; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary globose, 3-lobed; ovules few in a cell, superposed; style filiform, straight or declinate; stigma obscurely tricuspidate. Capsule globose, deeply 3-lobed, membranous. Seeds 1 or few in a cell, globose. —Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves usually linear, produced with or a little after the flowers. Umbels few or many-flowered; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate. Flowers pale or deep red.
Range
Species 15, all South African.
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