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Bulbine latifolia L.f. Schult. & Schult. f. [family ASPHODELACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 3, page 25, (2001) Author: S. Kativu
Names
Anthericum latifolium L.f. [family ASPHODELACEAE], Suppl. Pl.: 202 (1781).
Bulbine natalensis Baker [family ASPHODELACEAE], in F.C. 6: 366 (1896). Type from South Africa.
Bulbine latifolia L.f. Schult. & Schult. f. [family ASPHODELACEAE], Syst. Veg., ed. 7: 447 (1829). —J.G. Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 15: 349 (1876); in F.C. 6: 366 (1896). —Pole Evans, Fl. Pl. S. Africa 13: plate 489 (1933). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 51 (1961). —Kativu in Kirkia 16: 49 (1997). Type from South Africa.
Information
Perennial herb 10–68(72) cm tall from a ± fleshy tuber-like base; plants solitary not clustered, rosulate (erect), glabrous with leaves ciliolate. Tubers 1–3.5 cm in diameter, ± subglobose to flattened and disc-like in mature plants, with numerous radiating fleshy tapering roots. Stems absent. Leaves 3 to numerous, in a dense rosette, arching becoming ± prostrate, glabrous with ciliolate margins, sheathing at the base; the bases successively overlapping bases of inner leaves, persisting as scarious hyaline sheaths which usually break down into numerous long fibres through the centre of which the new leaves and peduncle emerge; blade thickly fleshy, 5–42 cm long and 1–6.5(9) cm wide toward the base, ovate or broadly to narrowly lanceolate, tapering to the apex. Peduncles 1–5 per plant, stout, erect, 7–40 cm long, ± strongly flattened in the lower part and up to c. 7(12) mm wide with narrowly hyaline ± ciliolate wings. Raceme usually densely many-flowered, sometimes ± laxly-flowered, (3)5–20(35) cm long, narrowly cylindrical; bracts membranous, 4–12 mm long, narrowly lanceolate and ± finely tapering to the apex, sometimes ciliolate on the margins, exauriculate, persistent; pedicels mostly erect to ascending, filiform or slender, c. 3–11(16) mm long, straight, persistent. Tepals bright yellow, up to c. 6.5 mm long, the inner c. 3 mm wide, the outer 1.5–2 mm wide, elliptic, persistent. Filaments c. 4–5 mm long, all densely bearded about the middle with long very narrowly linear hairs; anthers c. 1 mm long. Style 3–5 mm long, terete. Capsule not inflated when mature, c. 2.5–3.5(5) mm long and 3–3.5(4) mm wide, obovoid, shallowly 3-lobed. Seeds 1–3 per locule, c. 2–3 mm long, pyramidal, narrowly winged on the angles, convex on the outer face with 2–3 flat inner faces tapering to the point of attachment, black, sometimes with a reticulate pattern of low incipient ridges on the surface.
Habitat
Montane grassland, amongst rocks and in rock crevasses, and on river and stream banks
Altitude range
300–1700 m.
1700
300
Distribution
Zimbabwe C Rusape, fl. 1.xi.1946, Munch 14 (PRE).Malawi S Mt. Chiradzulu, fl. ix.1861, Meller s.n. (K).Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., between Skeleton Pass and The Plateau, c. 1670 m, fl. 27.ix.1966, Grosvenor 226 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Nyahode River Bridge, fl. 18.xi.1965, Plowes 2730 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Mberengwa Distr., Buhwa Mt., fl. 10.xii.1953, Wild 4321 (K; SRGH).Mozambique M Namaacha Distr., Goba, vicinity of Maiuana River, fl. 7.xi.1960, Balsinhas 219 (LISC).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Cape, Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Wild 4321 (K; SRGH) and Pope, Biegel & Simon 1098 (K; SRGH), growing on rocks on the summit of Mt. Buhwa, Zimbabwe, may represent depauperate specimens of B. latifolia, agreeing in flower and indumentum characters with the normally more robust B. latifolia plants from the Chimanimani Mts. The delimitation of B. latifolia is still in question, and the name B. latifolia is here applied in the broad sense. Research being done in South Africa suggests that the FZ material may be more correctly referred to the B. natalensis complex.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 3, page 25, (2001) Author: S. Kativu
Names
Anthericum latifolium L.f. [family ASPHODELACEAE], Suppl. Pl.: 202 (1781).
Bulbine natalensis Baker [family ASPHODELACEAE], in F.C. 6: 366 (1896). Type from South Africa.
Bulbine latifolia L.f. Schult. & Schult. f. [family ASPHODELACEAE], Syst. Veg., ed. 7: 447 (1829). —J.G. Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 15: 349 (1876); in F.C. 6: 366 (1896). —Pole Evans, Fl. Pl. S. Africa 13: plate 489 (1933). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 51 (1961). —Kativu in Kirkia 16: 49 (1997). Type from South Africa.
Information
Perennial herb 10–68(72) cm tall from a ± fleshy tuber-like base; plants solitary not clustered, rosulate (erect), glabrous with leaves ciliolate. Tubers 1–3.5 cm in diameter, ± subglobose to flattened and disc-like in mature plants, with numerous radiating fleshy tapering roots. Stems absent. Leaves 3 to numerous, in a dense rosette, arching becoming ± prostrate, glabrous with ciliolate margins, sheathing at the base; the bases successively overlapping bases of inner leaves, persisting as scarious hyaline sheaths which usually break down into numerous long fibres through the centre of which the new leaves and peduncle emerge; blade thickly fleshy, 5–42 cm long and 1–6.5(9) cm wide toward the base, ovate or broadly to narrowly lanceolate, tapering to the apex. Peduncles 1–5 per plant, stout, erect, 7–40 cm long, ± strongly flattened in the lower part and up to c. 7(12) mm wide with narrowly hyaline ± ciliolate wings. Raceme usually densely many-flowered, sometimes ± laxly-flowered, (3)5–20(35) cm long, narrowly cylindrical; bracts membranous, 4–12 mm long, narrowly lanceolate and ± finely tapering to the apex, sometimes ciliolate on the margins, exauriculate, persistent; pedicels mostly erect to ascending, filiform or slender, c. 3–11(16) mm long, straight, persistent. Tepals bright yellow, up to c. 6.5 mm long, the inner c. 3 mm wide, the outer 1.5–2 mm wide, elliptic, persistent. Filaments c. 4–5 mm long, all densely bearded about the middle with long very narrowly linear hairs; anthers c. 1 mm long. Style 3–5 mm long, terete. Capsule not inflated when mature, c. 2.5–3.5(5) mm long and 3–3.5(4) mm wide, obovoid, shallowly 3-lobed. Seeds 1–3 per locule, c. 2–3 mm long, pyramidal, narrowly winged on the angles, convex on the outer face with 2–3 flat inner faces tapering to the point of attachment, black, sometimes with a reticulate pattern of low incipient ridges on the surface.
Habitat
Montane grassland, amongst rocks and in rock crevasses, and on river and stream banks
Altitude range
300–1700 m.
1700
300
Distribution
Zimbabwe C Rusape, fl. 1.xi.1946, Munch 14 (PRE).Malawi S Mt. Chiradzulu, fl. ix.1861, Meller s.n. (K).Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., between Skeleton Pass and The Plateau, c. 1670 m, fl. 27.ix.1966, Grosvenor 226 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Nyahode River Bridge, fl. 18.xi.1965, Plowes 2730 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Mberengwa Distr., Buhwa Mt., fl. 10.xii.1953, Wild 4321 (K; SRGH).Mozambique M Namaacha Distr., Goba, vicinity of Maiuana River, fl. 7.xi.1960, Balsinhas 219 (LISC).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Cape, Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Wild 4321 (K; SRGH) and Pope, Biegel & Simon 1098 (K; SRGH), growing on rocks on the summit of Mt. Buhwa, Zimbabwe, may represent depauperate specimens of B. latifolia, agreeing in flower and indumentum characters with the normally more robust B. latifolia plants from the Chimanimani Mts. The delimitation of B. latifolia is still in question, and the name B. latifolia is here applied in the broad sense. Research being done in South Africa suggests that the FZ material may be more correctly referred to the B. natalensis complex.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 3, page 25, (2001) Author: S. Kativu
Names
Anthericum latifolium L.f. [family ASPHODELACEAE], Suppl. Pl.: 202 (1781).
Bulbine natalensis Baker [family ASPHODELACEAE], in F.C. 6: 366 (1896). Type from South Africa.
Bulbine latifolia L.f. Schult. & Schult. f. [family ASPHODELACEAE], Syst. Veg., ed. 7: 447 (1829). —J.G. Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 15: 349 (1876); in F.C. 6: 366 (1896). —Pole Evans, Fl. Pl. S. Africa 13: plate 489 (1933). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 51 (1961). —Kativu in Kirkia 16: 49 (1997). Type from South Africa.
Information
Perennial herb 10–68(72) cm tall from a ± fleshy tuber-like base; plants solitary not clustered, rosulate (erect), glabrous with leaves ciliolate. Tubers 1–3.5 cm in diameter, ± subglobose to flattened and disc-like in mature plants, with numerous radiating fleshy tapering roots. Stems absent. Leaves 3 to numerous, in a dense rosette, arching becoming ± prostrate, glabrous with ciliolate margins, sheathing at the base; the bases successively overlapping bases of inner leaves, persisting as scarious hyaline sheaths which usually break down into numerous long fibres through the centre of which the new leaves and peduncle emerge; blade thickly fleshy, 5–42 cm long and 1–6.5(9) cm wide toward the base, ovate or broadly to narrowly lanceolate, tapering to the apex. Peduncles 1–5 per plant, stout, erect, 7–40 cm long, ± strongly flattened in the lower part and up to c. 7(12) mm wide with narrowly hyaline ± ciliolate wings. Raceme usually densely many-flowered, sometimes ± laxly-flowered, (3)5–20(35) cm long, narrowly cylindrical; bracts membranous, 4–12 mm long, narrowly lanceolate and ± finely tapering to the apex, sometimes ciliolate on the margins, exauriculate, persistent; pedicels mostly erect to ascending, filiform or slender, c. 3–11(16) mm long, straight, persistent. Tepals bright yellow, up to c. 6.5 mm long, the inner c. 3 mm wide, the outer 1.5–2 mm wide, elliptic, persistent. Filaments c. 4–5 mm long, all densely bearded about the middle with long very narrowly linear hairs; anthers c. 1 mm long. Style 3–5 mm long, terete. Capsule not inflated when mature, c. 2.5–3.5(5) mm long and 3–3.5(4) mm wide, obovoid, shallowly 3-lobed. Seeds 1–3 per locule, c. 2–3 mm long, pyramidal, narrowly winged on the angles, convex on the outer face with 2–3 flat inner faces tapering to the point of attachment, black, sometimes with a reticulate pattern of low incipient ridges on the surface.
Habitat
Montane grassland, amongst rocks and in rock crevasses, and on river and stream banks
Altitude range
300–1700 m.
1700
300
Distribution
Zimbabwe C Rusape, fl. 1.xi.1946, Munch 14 (PRE).Malawi S Mt. Chiradzulu, fl. ix.1861, Meller s.n. (K).Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., between Skeleton Pass and The Plateau, c. 1670 m, fl. 27.ix.1966, Grosvenor 226 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Nyahode River Bridge, fl. 18.xi.1965, Plowes 2730 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Mberengwa Distr., Buhwa Mt., fl. 10.xii.1953, Wild 4321 (K; SRGH).Mozambique M Namaacha Distr., Goba, vicinity of Maiuana River, fl. 7.xi.1960, Balsinhas 219 (LISC).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Cape, Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal)
Notes
Wild 4321 (K; SRGH) and Pope, Biegel & Simon 1098 (K; SRGH), growing on rocks on the summit of Mt. Buhwa, Zimbabwe, may represent depauperate specimens of B. latifolia, agreeing in flower and indumentum characters with the normally more robust B. latifolia plants from the Chimanimani Mts. The delimitation of B. latifolia is still in question, and the name B. latifolia is here applied in the broad sense. Research being done in South Africa suggests that the FZ material may be more correctly referred to the B. natalensis complex.
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