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Cyrtanthus collinus Ker Gawl.

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae > Cyrtanthus

Characteristics

Bulb ovate, up to 4 cm in diam. Leaves 3, contemporary with the flowers, linear, 15-25 cm long, 5-8 mm broad, glaucous, flattish toward the apex, channeled below. Peduncle hardly as long as the leaves, slender, glaucous. Spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, about 2.5 cm long. Pedicels up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers up to about 10 in an umbel; perianth more or less 5 cm long, bright red with whitish lines extending along the perianth from the ovary; tube curved at the base, slender in the lower half, dilated above to a throat nearly 1 cm wide; lobes oblong-obtuse, approximately 1.25 cm long. Stamens indistinctly biseriate, filaments short. Styles shortly trifid.
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Perennial geophyte, up to ± 0.3 m high. Leaves dry or green at flowering, narrowly strapshaped, 3-5 mm wide, greyish green, not keeled. Flowers 4-11, spreading, bright red; perianth ± tubular, tube occasionally dilated towards throat, 35-45 mm long; stamens inserted in or slightly below throat; style shorter than perianth; stigma 3-lobed. Flowering time Dec.-May.
Bulbous geophyte, 15-35 cm, forming clumps. Leaves usually 2, sometimes dry at flowering, narrowly strap-shaped, greyish. Flowers 4-11, nodding, narrowly funnel-shaped, bright red to orange, stamens shortly exserted from throat, style 3-branched.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Environment

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Soil texture 5-8
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
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Images

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Distribution

Cyrtanthus collinus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:64205-1
WFO ID wfo-0000764907
COL ID 33L2N
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Monella glauca Monella collina Cyrtanthus collinus
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