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ORNITHOGALUM gracillimum R.E. Fr. [family HYACINTHACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: Brita Stedje, Ph.D.
Names
ORNITHOGALUM gracillimum R.E. Fr. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Acta Hort. Berg. 9: 77 (1927); Polhill in Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 24: 21 (1962); Stedje & Nordal in Nordic Journ. Bot. 4: 757, figs. 1, 13a (1984); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 424 (1992); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 320, t. 147 (1994). Type: Mt. Kenya, R.E. & T.C.E. Fries 950 (UPS, holo.!)
Information
Plants small and slender, up to 20 cm. Bulb up to 2 cm. in diameter. Leaves filiform, up to 17 cm. long. Scape up to 10 cm. Inflorescence with 2-12 white flowers; pedicels 2-35 mm.; bracts lanceolate, 2-6 mm. long. Perianth-segments obovate, 4-7 mm., with few scattered vascular bundles. Filaments narrowly triangular, 2-3 mm. Ovary globose to subglobose, with a short, delicate carpophore; ovary 1.75 mm. long; carpophore 0.25 mm.; style ± as long as the ovary. Capsule 3-4 mm. long. Seeds 1.5-2 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 3; K 2-6;
Altitude range
2000-3000 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Napak, 25 May 1940, A.S. Thomas 3594!;KENYA Elgon, above Endebess, 30 Apr. 1961, Polhill 406!;UGANDA Mbale District Sebei, 15 May 1955, Norman 260!KENYA Naivasha District Longonot- South Kinangop, 23 Apr. 1961, Polhill 391!;KENYA Masai District Eorengitok [Orengitok], 19 km. from Narok on the road to Olokurto, 17 May 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 1256!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: Brita Stedje, Ph.D.
Names
ORNITHOGALUM gracillimum R.E. Fr. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Acta Hort. Berg. 9: 77 (1927); Polhill in Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 24: 21 (1962); Stedje & Nordal in Nordic Journ. Bot. 4: 757, figs. 1, 13a (1984); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 424 (1992); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 320, t. 147 (1994). Type: Mt. Kenya, R.E. & T.C.E. Fries 950 (UPS, holo.!)
Information
Plants small and slender, up to 20 cm. Bulb up to 2 cm. in diameter. Leaves filiform, up to 17 cm. long. Scape up to 10 cm. Inflorescence with 2-12 white flowers; pedicels 2-35 mm.; bracts lanceolate, 2-6 mm. long. Perianth-segments obovate, 4-7 mm., with few scattered vascular bundles. Filaments narrowly triangular, 2-3 mm. Ovary globose to subglobose, with a short, delicate carpophore; ovary 1.75 mm. long; carpophore 0.25 mm.; style ± as long as the ovary. Capsule 3-4 mm. long. Seeds 1.5-2 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 3; K 2-6;
Altitude range
2000-3000 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Napak, 25 May 1940, A.S. Thomas 3594!;KENYA Elgon, above Endebess, 30 Apr. 1961, Polhill 406!;UGANDA Mbale District Sebei, 15 May 1955, Norman 260!KENYA Naivasha District Longonot- South Kinangop, 23 Apr. 1961, Polhill 391!;KENYA Masai District Eorengitok [Orengitok], 19 km. from Narok on the road to Olokurto, 17 May 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 1256!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1996) Author: Brita Stedje, Ph.D.
Names
ORNITHOGALUM gracillimum R.E. Fr. [family HYACINTHACEAE], in Acta Hort. Berg. 9: 77 (1927); Polhill in Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 24: 21 (1962); Stedje & Nordal in Nordic Journ. Bot. 4: 757, figs. 1, 13a (1984); Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr., reprint: 424 (1992); U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 320, t. 147 (1994). Type: Mt. Kenya, R.E. & T.C.E. Fries 950 (UPS, holo.!)
Information
Plants small and slender, up to 20 cm. Bulb up to 2 cm. in diameter. Leaves filiform, up to 17 cm. long. Scape up to 10 cm. Inflorescence with 2-12 white flowers; pedicels 2-35 mm.; bracts lanceolate, 2-6 mm. long. Perianth-segments obovate, 4-7 mm., with few scattered vascular bundles. Filaments narrowly triangular, 2-3 mm. Ovary globose to subglobose, with a short, delicate carpophore; ovary 1.75 mm. long; carpophore 0.25 mm.; style ± as long as the ovary. Capsule 3-4 mm. long. Seeds 1.5-2 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U 1, 3; K 2-6;
Altitude range
2000-3000 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Karamoja District Napak, 25 May 1940, A.S. Thomas 3594!;KENYA Elgon, above Endebess, 30 Apr. 1961, Polhill 406!;UGANDA Mbale District Sebei, 15 May 1955, Norman 260!KENYA Naivasha District Longonot- South Kinangop, 23 Apr. 1961, Polhill 391!;KENYA Masai District Eorengitok [Orengitok], 19 km. from Narok on the road to Olokurto, 17 May 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel 1256!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
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