Rauhia decora
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Rauhia decora is a plant of the genus rauhia in the family of Amaryllidaceae family (Amaryllidaceae). The specific epithet decora comes from Latin and means 'graceful' or 'noble'.
description
Rauhia decora grows with egg-shaped bulbs that are about 5.5 centimeters in diameter. Their brown, fleshy onion scales dry up like paper. The two to six leaves are 20 to 30 inches long and 8 to 12 inches wide.
The inflorescence bears eight to 25 flowers . The flower stem is up to 20 to 34 centimeters long. The two broadly egg-shaped bracts are not fused to one another up to their base and are about 3.8 centimeters long. The flower stalk is 6.5 to 7.5 centimeters and the perigone tube about 2.2 centimeters long. The greenish-whitish tepals are 4 to 5 centimeters long. Shorter stamens are about 6.2 inches long, longer ones are about 6.7 inches long. The ovary is 0.9 to 1.5 inches long and 0.5 inches wide. The bent stylus is longer than the stamens . The scar capped three-lobed.
Systematics and distribution
Rauhia decora is common in Peru at altitudes of 500 to 1000 meters.
The first description by Pierfelice Ravenna was published in 1981.
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literature
- Silvia Arroyo-Leuenberger : Rauhia decora . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 235-236 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 62.
- ↑ Plant life . Volume 37, Stanford 1981, p. 77.