Albuca kirkii (Baker) Brenan

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae > Albuca

Characteristics

Small to robust plants, up to 150 cm., flowering with or before the leaves.. Bulb-scales with or without fibrous apex.. Leaves narrowly lanceolate and glabrous, up to 55 cm. long and 6-15 mm. wide.. Inflorescence a raceme with 5-40 flowers; pedicels 1.5-10 cm.; flowers erect.. Perianth-segments 12-21 mm., white to cream with vascular bundles assembled in a green midrib, inner strongly cucullate and connivent, outer weakly cucullate and ± spreading.. Inner filaments clasping the ovary, outer flattened.. Ovary 5-7 mm. long; style wide and ± as long as the ovary.. Capsule 10-18 mm. long.. Seeds ± 4 mm. long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Albuca kirkii world distribution map, present in Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:527392-1
WFO ID wfo-0000755185
COL ID BGL2
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Synonyms

Ornithogalum kirkii Albuca kirkii Albuca nyikensis