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PANCRATIUM maximum Forsk. [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
PANCRATIUM maximum Forsk. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Fl. Ægypt. Arab. 72.
Information
Bulb large, globose; outer tunics dull brown. Leaves 4–5 to a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, linear, glabrous, not crisped, 1 ft. long, 1/2 in. broad. Peduncle short, 1-flowered; spathe tubular, membranous, 2 in. long. Perianth-tube greenish, cylindrical, 4 in. long; segments lanceolate, white, 2 1/2 in. long. Staminal cup 2 in. long, faintly lobed at the throat; free part of filaments 1/3 in. long; anthers linear, 1/4 in. long. Style protruding slightly from the staminal cup.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land mountains above Suakin, bulbs brought home by the Bent expedition in 1895.
Distribution (external)
Arabia
Notes
Described from specimens flowered by Sir C. W. Strickland in 1897.
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
PANCRATIUM maximum Forsk. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Fl. Ægypt. Arab. 72.
Information
Bulb large, globose; outer tunics dull brown. Leaves 4–5 to a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, linear, glabrous, not crisped, 1 ft. long, 1/2 in. broad. Peduncle short, 1-flowered; spathe tubular, membranous, 2 in. long. Perianth-tube greenish, cylindrical, 4 in. long; segments lanceolate, white, 2 1/2 in. long. Staminal cup 2 in. long, faintly lobed at the throat; free part of filaments 1/3 in. long; anthers linear, 1/4 in. long. Style protruding slightly from the staminal cup.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land mountains above Suakin, bulbs brought home by the Bent expedition in 1895.
Distribution (external)
Arabia
Notes
Described from specimens flowered by Sir C. W. Strickland in 1897.
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
PANCRATIUM maximum Forsk. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Fl. Ægypt. Arab. 72.
Information
Bulb large, globose; outer tunics dull brown. Leaves 4–5 to a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, linear, glabrous, not crisped, 1 ft. long, 1/2 in. broad. Peduncle short, 1-flowered; spathe tubular, membranous, 2 in. long. Perianth-tube greenish, cylindrical, 4 in. long; segments lanceolate, white, 2 1/2 in. long. Staminal cup 2 in. long, faintly lobed at the throat; free part of filaments 1/3 in. long; anthers linear, 1/4 in. long. Style protruding slightly from the staminal cup.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land mountains above Suakin, bulbs brought home by the Bent expedition in 1895.
Distribution (external)
Arabia
Notes
Described from specimens flowered by Sir C. W. Strickland in 1897.
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