Strumaria chaplinii is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to south-west Cape Provinces. It was first described in 1944 as Hessea chaplinii.[3]
Strumaria chaplinii | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
Genus: | Strumaria |
Species: | S. chaplinii |
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Strumaria chaplinii (W.F.Barker) Snijman[2] | |
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Strumaria chaplinii is a very small plant. The upper leaf surfaces are hairy. The flowers are star-shaped, with tepals that have flat faces, unlike similar species such as Strumaria discifera. Like other species of Strumaria, the flowers are borne in an umbel on long pedicels.[4]
The species was first described as Hessea chaplinii in 1944 by Winsome Fanny Barker. It was transferred to Strumaria in 1994.[3]
Strumaria chaplinii is native to the south-west Cape Provinces of South Africa.[2] It grows in moist pockets at the base of granite rocks in coastal fynbos.[1]
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Strumaria chaplinii |
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Hessea chaplinii |
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