Rauhia multiflora

Rauhia multiflora
	Rauhia multiflora
Systematics
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae)
Subfamily :	Amaryllidoideae
Tribe :	Stenomesseae
Genre :	Rauhia
Type :	Rauhia multiflora
Scientific name
	Rauhia multiflora
	( Kunth ) Ravenna

Rauhia multiflora is a plant of the genus rauhia in the family of Amaryllidaceae family (Amaryllidaceae). The specific epithet multiflora is derived from the Latin words multi for 'much' and florus for '-blütig'.

description

Rauhia multiflora grows with egg-shaped bulbs that are about 10 to 15 centimeters in diameter. Their brown, fleshy onion scales dry up like paper. The two to four spreading leaves are 20 to 30 centimeters long, 9 to 15 centimeters wide and very fleshy.

The inflorescence bears eight to 25 flowers . The flower stem is up to 50 to 120 centimeters long. The two, occasionally three, broadly egg-shaped bracts are not fused to one another up to their base and have a length of about 3 centimeters. The flower stalk is 3 to 9 centimeters and the perigone tube about 2.2 centimeters long. The greenish-whitish tepals are 4 to 5 centimeters long. Shorter stamens are about 3.1 centimeters long, longer ones are about 3.6 centimeters long. The ovary is 0.5 to 1.2 inches long and 0.5 inches wide. The kinked stylus is as long as the stamens or longer. The scar is heady.

Rauhia multiflora fruits

Systematics and distribution

Rauhia multiflora is common in Peru at altitudes of 500 to 1500 meters.

The first description as Phaedranassa multiflora by Karl Sigismund Kunth was published in 1850. Pierfelice Ravenna placed the species in 1969 in the genus Rauhia .

Synonyms are Phaedranassa megistophylla Kraenzl. (1917), Rauhia megistophylla (Kraenzl.) Traub (1966) and Rauhia peruviana Traub (1957).

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literature

Silvia Arroyo-Leuenberger : Rauhia multiflora . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 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. 159.
↑ Enumeratio plantarum omnium hucusque cognitarum, secundum familias naturales disposita, adjectis characteribus, differentiis, et synonymis . Volume 5, 1850, p. 502 ( online ).
↑ Plant life . Volume 25, Stanford 1969, p. 61.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 159.

[2] Enumeratio plantarum omnium hucusque cognitarum, secundum familias naturales disposita, adjectis characteribus, differentiis, et synonymis . Volume 5, 1850, p. 502 ( online ).

[3] Plant life . Volume 25, Stanford 1969, p. 61.