Kniphofia multiflora J.M.Wood & M.S.Evans

Species

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Characteristics

Plants robust, usually many-stemmed. Leaves ascending, later bending over ± middle, 0.8-1.8 m long, 20-4-0 mm broad, deeply keeled, mid-green; margin and keel serrulate. Scape overtopping reflexed leaves, 0.8-2.0 m tall. Raceme slender, elongate, tapering gradually towards apex, 300-800 mm long; buds and flowers ascending; buds greenish white to orange-yellow tipped with red, becoming whitish to yellow as flowers open. Bracts oblong-spathulate, 3.5-5.5 mm long, acute to rounded at apex; margin minutely eroso-denticulate. Pedicels 1.5-4.0 mm long at flowering stage, elongating up to 4-5 mm in fruit. Perianth shortly subcylindrical, 7-12 mm long; lobes ovate, 1.5 mm long. Anthers shortly exserted. Fruit ovoid-triquetrous, 5-6 mm long.
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Perennial herb; caulescent. Stems usually several, short. Leaves erect, later recurved, 0.8-1.8 m x 20-40 mm, deeply keeled; margins and keel serrulate. Flowers: inflorescence overtopping reflexed leaves, 0.8-2.0 m high, racemes slender, elongate, subdense; perianth 7-12 mm long, greenish white to orange-yellow tipped with red and ascending in bud, whitish to yellow and ascending when mature; Feb.-Apr.
Perennial herb. Inflorescence elongate, 300-800 mm long. Peduncle up to 1.6 m high. Perianth shorter than 20 mm. Flowers 7-12 mm long, ascending. Flowers yellow to pale orange.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.8 - 2.0
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 10 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Distribution

Kniphofia multiflora world distribution map, present in eSwatini and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:537055-1
WFO ID wfo-0000676107
COL ID 6NLS3
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Synonyms

Kniphofia multiflora