Ledebouria undulata
| Family: | Hyacinthaceae |
| Full name: | Ledebouria undulata (Jacq.) Jessop |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Speckled-leaf hyacinth |
| Synonym(s): | Drimia undulata Jacq. fide Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 36(4): 258 Drimiopsis engleri K.Krause fide Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 36(4): 258 Scilla ecklonii Baker fide Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 36(4): 258 Scilla laxiflora Baker uncertain synonymy. fide Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 36(4): 258 Scilla nelsonii Baker fide Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 36(4): 258 Scilla prasina Baker Scilla rautanenii Schinz Scilla undulata (Jacq.) Baker fide Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 36(4): 258 |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | L. undulata is the only hysteranthous species of Ledebouria (hysteranthous --> leaves emerge after the flowers have opened). In leaf it is easy to identify by the fleshy texture and dull green to glaucous colour. (from Synopsis of the genus Ledebouria Roth (Hyacinthaceae) in South Africa, F. Venter, Herbertia 62, January 2008) Plant solitary. Bulb hypogeal, 50 - 60 x 30 - 50 mm, ovoid; dead bulb scales light brown, membranous, apices truncate, live bulb scales fleshy, loosely arranged, without threads when torn, white inside, neck 10 - 20 x 10 - 20 mm. Leaves hysteranthous, 3 - 9, spreading, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 70 - 110 x 6 - 10 mm, without threads when torn, fleshy, glabrous, dull green to glaucous green, venation sometimes prominent; margins undulate; leaf base canaliculate; apex acute. Inflorescence solitary, dense, cylindric, 25 - 40 x 15 - 25 mm, erect, 20 - 30 -flowered, shorter than the leaves; scape terete at base, green, glabrous; rachis ridged, 15 - 20 mm long. Bracts fleshy, 1 x 0.5 mm, linear to dentate, green to pinkish with bracteoles present. Pedicels spreading horizontally, 3 - 7 mm long, pink. Perianth 5 - 6 mm long, tepals recurved, equal, oblong, 5 - 6 x 1.0 - 1.5 mm, apex acute, thickly cucullate, pink with a brown keel. Stamens spreading, 4 mm long, filaments white, epitepalous; anthers 0.5 mm long, yellow. Ovary globose, 6-lobed, 1.5 x 2 mm, lobes narrowly transversely oblong, apex tapering into style. Style 5 mm long, triangular, glabrous, white; stigma above anthers; stipe 0.25 x 0.25 mm. Capsule three-lobed, symmetrical, globose, base truncate. Seed drop-shaped, 3 mm long, surface strongly wrinkled, brown. (from A REVISION OF THE GENUS LEDEBOURIA ROTH (HYACINTHACEAE) IN SOUTH AFRICA, S. Venter, M.Sc. thesis, University of Natal, 1993) |
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JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | M Maclean |
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| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
