Kniphofia porphyrantha Baker

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asphodelaceae > Kniphofia

Characteristics

Plants usually many-stemmed. Leaves at first erect, later reflexed, 300-450 x 6-14 mm, yellow-green, flaccid, shallowly channelled above, keeled below; margin and keel smooth. Scape overtopping leaves, 400-600 mm long. Raceme subglobose to shortly cylindrical, dense, 40-80 x ±50 mm; buds spreading, orange-flame, tipped with yellow, flowers pendulous, lemon-yellow. Pedicels 1.5 mm long. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 6-9 mm long, acute to acuminate, usually smooth, occasionally minutely toothed towards apex. Perianth narrowly sub-cylindrical, 30-42 mm long, somewhat arcuate; I lobes ovate, 2.5 mm long, not or slightly spreading. Stamens exserted by 1-3 mm at anthesis, finally withdrawn. Fruit erect, subglobose, obscurely triquetrous, 8-10 mm long. Flowering time: October to December in Gauteng and Mpumalanga, but extends to January and February in KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Free State.
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Perennial herb. Stems usually many, short. Leaves first erect, later recurved, 0.30-0.45 m long, 6-14 mm wide, V-shaped in cross section, margins and keel smooth. Inflorescence overtopping leaves, 0.4-0.6 m high, with subglobose to shortly cylindric, dense raceme. Flowers flame-orange, tipped with yellow and spreading in bud, lemon-yellow and pendulous when mature, 30-42 mm long. Flowering time Oct.-Feb.
Perennial herb; caulescent. Stems usually many, short. Leaves first erect, later recurved, 300450 x 6-14 mm, keeled; margins and keel smooth. Flowers: inflorescence overtopping leaves, 0.4-0.6 m high, racemes subglobose to shortly cylindrical, dense; perianth 30-42 mm long, flame-orange, tipped with yellow and spreading in bud, lemon-yellow and pendulous when mature; Oct.-Feb.
Perennial herb. Leaves 6-14 mm broad, soft-textured. Inflorescence bicolorous with a few red buds at apex, remainder of inflorescence lemon-yellow. Peduncle up to 0.6 m high. Perianth 30-42 mm long. Flowers lemon-yellow.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 0.6
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

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 porphyrantha world distribution map, present in Lesotho, eSwatini, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:537074-1
WFO ID wfo-0000675759
COL ID 6NM3Q
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Synonyms

Kniphofia porphyrantha Kniphofia conrathii