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Eleutherine bulbosa
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Protea Hill Farm, cultivated ex Salujinga
Nov 2009
Photo: Mike Bingham
Protea Hill Farm, cultivated ex Salujinga
Oct 2008
Photo: Mike Bingham
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Eleutherine plicata (Sw.) Klatt Eleuthrine bulbosa (Mill.) Urb. Sisyrinchium bulbosum Mill. Sisyrinchium palmifolium L. |
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| Description: | Bulbs ovoid, 3 cm or more in diameter, the tunics firm, red-brown. Basal leaves 1-2, linear-lanceolate, 15-40 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, plicate. Scape 10-30 cm high, not winged, usually bearing a single 6-12-flowered spathe, this subtended by a leaf similar to the basal ones. Spathes about 1.5 cm long, the flowers slender- pedicellate. Perianth white, 2-2.5 cm broad, the segments obovate, spreading. Capsule about 2 cm long. | |
| Notes: | At the Mangango Mission the plants had been planted to mark the white lines in the football field. The surprising records from Salujinga and Ntumbachusi are escapes from cultivation, no doubt from D.R. Congo, where the plant is cultivated for medicinal use. Plants escaped from cultivation were recorded from KwaZulu-Natal in 1877 (APD). Reference: Goldblatt, Peter, personal communication |
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| Derivation of specific name: | bulbosa: possessing bulbs; bulbous. | |
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| Worldwide distribution: | West Indies, South America, naturalized in D.R. Congo, South Africa, Réunion, and Asia. | |
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| Content last updated: | Monday 28 November 2016 | |
| Literature: |
Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (1952). Flora of Guatemala Chicago Natural History Museum Pages 162 - 163. |
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