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Strelitziaceae

W/C = Wild Collected
Strelitzia nicolai Regel & K. Koch

  • Query IPNI
  • Common Name: Bird of Paradise Tree, Natal Wild Banana
  • Family: Strelitziaceae (Schumann) Hutch.

  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Habitat: near the coast in forests and dunes

  • Description: Resembling S. alba (solitary trunk, leaves to 4 feet long, 2 feet wide, petiole deeply wing-channelled) but much larger and treelike; inflorescence compound, bracts reddish-brown; petals light mauve or blue to nearly white, tongue boat-shaped, hastate at base, margins turned inward and meeting over the center.
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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500315
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1115 - AFR:Eastern Cape B
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 08-25-2009
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Zingiberales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Strelitziaceae
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References:

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976

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