Dipcadi glaucum
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| Family: | Hyacinthaceae |
| Full name: | Dipcadi glaucum (Burch. ex Ker Gawl.) Baker |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Malkopui, Dronkui, Groot malkopui, Slangkop, Groenlelie, Gifui, Gifdronkui, Groenlelie, Wildeui |
| English common name(s): | Wild onion, Poison onion |
| Synonym(s): | Dipcadi gracilipes K.Krause Dipcadi longibracteatum Schinz Dipcadi magnum Baker Uropetalum glaucum Burch. ex Ker Gawl. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | No red-brown bristly hairs at base, Long flower. Flowers: usually in a single inflorescence only, much longer than the leaves with up to 40 individual flowers, flowers opposite; perianth tubular, outer tepals abruptly ending in a long tail-like tip, inner ones with a yellowish to orange margin and slightly recurved tips, greenish, turning brown to copper with age. (from Wild Flowers of the Limpopo Valley) Bulb large, globose; leaves 5–6, thin, glabrous, lorate-lanceolate, glaucous, a foot long, 2.5–3 in. broad; peduncle stout, terete, 2 ft. long; raceme lax, 15–18 in. long, 4 in. broad when expanded, 30–40-flowered; pedicels patent, 1.5–2 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate, membranous; perianth bright green, 1.25 in. long; tube cylindrical, 0.5 in. long; outer segments linear, longer than the tube; inner connivent, oblong-lanceolate, shorter than the tube; stamens inserted near the throat of the tube; filaments about as long as the anthers; capsule obscurely stipitate, 0.75 in. long and broad; seeds 15–20 in a cell. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) Robust annual herb, up to 120 cm tall, growing from a brow bulb c. 4 cm in diameter. Leaves 4-9, strap-shaped, up to 45 cm long and 4 or more cm wide, distinctly blue-green and covered in a fine waxy, whitish powder. Inflorescence laxly many-flowered with pedicels up to 7 cm long, spiralling, not secund. Flowers green, c. 1.5 cm long excluding appendages; outer tepals with caudate appendages up to 8 mm long. Capsules subglobose, 3-lobed, c. 15 × 20 mm. Notes: A robust species with broad leaves and a distinctly blue-green (glaucous) appearance. The flowers often have long pedicels and are spiralled on the peduncle, not secund as in many other species. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
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 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
