Rauhia staminosa
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Rauhia staminosa is a plant of the genus rauhia in the family of Amaryllidaceae family (Amaryllidaceae). The specific epithet staminosa comes from Latin and means 'with protruding stamens'.
description
Rauhia staminosa grows with egg-shaped bulbs that are 8 to 10 centimeters in diameter. Their brown, fleshy onion scales dry up like paper. The two leaves are 15 to 30 inches long and 9 to 15 inches wide.
The inflorescence bears eight to 24 flowers . The flower stem is 40 to 80 centimeters long. The two broadly egg-shaped bracts are not fused together to their base and are 3.2 to 4 centimeters long. The flower stalk is 4 to 9 centimeters and the perigone tube 1.4 to 1.7 centimeters long. The greenish-whitish outer tepals are 2 to 2.3 centimeters long, the inner 1.8 to 2.15 centimeters. Shorter stamens are about 4.6 centimeters long, longer ones are about 6.5 centimeters long. The ovary is 0.9 to 1.1 inches long and 0.5 inches wide. The bent stylus is longer than the stamens . The scar is heady.
Systematics and distribution
Rauhia staminosa is common in Peru at altitudes of 500 to 1000 meters.
The first description by Pierfelice Ravenna was published in 1978.
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literature
- Silvia Arroyo-Leuenberger : Rauhia staminosa . 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. 226.
- ↑ Plant life . Volume 34, Stanford 1978, p. 68.
