PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / HYACINTHACEAE / SCILLOIDEAE / MASSONIEAE / MASSONIA / PUSTULATA
Deciduous geophyte. Bulb subglobose, 15-35 mm diam., outer tunics papery, greyish to pale brown. Leaves 2, opposite, prostrate or spreading, ovate to suborbicular, 50-120 x 50-110 mm, acute or obtuse, leathery with narrowly membranous margins, minutely setulose or papillate marginally and submarginally, upper surface bright green, longitudinally depressed-veined, murico-pustulate tuberculo-pustulate or rarely smooth, pustules ±0.5-0.8 mm diam., topped with an obtuse tubercle ±0.2 mm long. Inflorescence a condensed, subcapitate raceme, few- to many-flowered, protruding shortly above leaves; bracts lanceolate, 20-50 x 10-15 mm, acute to acuminate, margins smooth; pedicels at anthesis 5-15 mm long. Flowers unscented; perianth white with inside of tube flushed blue and filament cup dark obsidian-green or bluish black; tube cylindrical-obconic, widening slightly towards mouth, 10-12 x 4-5 mm, mouth 4-5 mm diam.; tepals arising at same level, sharply sigmoid-recoiled at base, spreading or incurving distally, lanceolate, 8-10 x 3-4 mm, ± conduplicate distally, margins entire, apex penicillate. Filaments erect, white with dark green or bluish black basal collar, filiform, (10-)15-22 mm long, connate at base for (2.0-)2.5-5.0 mm in a thick, longitudinally ribbed collar not occluded at mouth; anthers 2.5-3.0 mm long at anthesis, greyish yellow to yellow with yellow pollen. Ovary ovoid to obovoid, whitish flushed blue, 5-7 x 4-5 mm long, strongly contracted to style; style white, 19-30 mm long, well-differentiated from ovary, erect, filiform. Capsule obovoid-cuneate, 3-winged, emarginate, 20-30 x 10-20 mm. Seeds subglobose-pyriform, 1.25-1.5 mm diam., smooth. From: Manning, JC. 2019. The genus Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. (Hyacinthaceae: Scilloideae) in the Core Cape Floristic Region. S. African J. Bot. 121: 329-354. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2018.11.015] [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (2019); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Perennial geophyte, 20-50 mm high; bulb globose, 10-25 mm in diam., outer scales up to 20, firm, brown, inner ones whitish. Leaves flat on ground, paired, ± ovate, 30-100 x 20-70 mm, green-, red-, brown- or purple-flecked, veins depressed, thin to subfleshy, pustulate. Inflorescences capitate, 15-25-flowered; lower bracts ± ovate. Flowers: pedicels 10-12 mm long; perianth white, pink, yellow or greenish, tube 6-11 mm long, segments as long as tube, oblong, ± reflexed, longitudinally sigmoid-curved towards base. Filaments 4-12 mm long, narrowly deltoid; anthers yellow or reddish, up to 1.75 mm long. Ovary obovoid. Flowering time June-Sept. Fruit a 3-winged, obovoid capsule. From: Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Hyacinthaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1771-1810. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Like M. echinata but often larger, with yellow anthers, and capsules larger, 15-25 mm long. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Snijman, DA. 2012. Hyacinthaceae: Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 112-112. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Bulb ovoid, 1 in. diam.; leaves broad oblong, 5-6 in. long, 4 in. broad, acute, narrowed to the base, distantly ribbed, rough with tubercles on the face; capitulum shortly peduncled, under 2 in. diam.; outer bracts ovate-lanceolate, an inch long; outer pedicels 1/4-1/3 in. long; perianth white, an inch long; segments linear-lanceolate, reflexing, shorter than the tube; filaments whitish, about 4 in. long; anthers small, oblong. From: Baker, JG. 1897. CXXXVII. Liliaceae. In: WT Thiselton-Dyer (ed.), Haemodoraceae to Liliaceae. Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 6: 253-528. Lovell Reeve & Co., London. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/15237#page/262/mode/1up] [All rights reserved]
Readily diagnosed by the ñobconic perianth tube 10-12 mm long with an open mouth 4-5 mm diam., tepals that are sigmoid-recurved basally, and strikingly bicoloured filaments, (11-)15-22 mm long and whitish for most of their length but connate at the base in a thick, obsidian-green or bluish black collar 2-5 mm long, and with relatively large anthers, 2.5-3.0 mm long at anthesis. The leaves are usually tuberculate-pustulate but are smooth in some collections The large, obovoid-cuneate, emarginate, 3-winged capsules, 20-30 mm long, are also diagnostic. From: Manning, JC. 2019. The genus Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. (Hyacinthaceae: Scilloideae) in the Core Cape Floristic Region. S. African J. Bot. 121: 329-354. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2018.11.015] [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (2019); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Stony clay flats and shale outcrops in renosterveld shrubland. From: Manning, JC. 2019. The genus Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. (Hyacinthaceae: Scilloideae) in the Core Cape Floristic Region. S. African J. Bot. 121: 329-354. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2018.11.015] [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (2019); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Open in coastal sand with fynbos, dry inland areas, humic soils, clay. Upper Karoo, Drakensberg Grassland, Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld. From: Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Hyacinthaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1771-1810. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Sandy coastal flats. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Snijman, DA. 2012. Hyacinthaceae: Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 112-112. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
A local endemic of the Overberg in Western Cape, recorded from Napier east to Swellendam and Heidelberg and south to Bredasdorp. From: Manning, JC. 2019. The genus Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. (Hyacinthaceae: Scilloideae) in the Core Cape Floristic Region. S. African J. Bot. 121: 329-354. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2018.11.015] [Copyright held by the South African Association of Botanists (2019); http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02546299] [CC BY]
Caledon to Joubertina. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Snijman, DA. 2012. Hyacinthaceae: Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 112-112. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
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Names and Sources
Published in: Coll. 4: 177 (1791)
Type: South Africa, illustration in Jacquin: 454 (1804) (lecto.). Lectotype designated by Jessop, Journal of South African Botany: 417 (1976).
Massonia scabra Thunb.
Published in: Prodr. Pl. Cap. 2: 188 (1800)
Type: South Africa, ‘Cap. b. Spei’, Thunberg s.n. (UPS-THUNB [7992], holo.)
Massonia muricata Ker Gawl.
Published in: Bot. Mag. 16: t. 559 (1802)
Type: South Africa, illustration in Ker-Gawler: t. 559 (1802), ‘our drawing was made in the garden of Ed.Woodward, Esq.' (lecto.). Lectotype designated by Jessop, Journal of South African Botany 42: 414 (1976).
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Hyacinthaceae
SUBFAMILY Scilloideae
TRIBE Massonieae
GENUS Massonia
SPECIES pustulata
32 results for Massonia pustulata Jacq.
Year
Barcode: PRE0712822-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Wyk, CM, 1369 | 1983-8-9
South Africa, Cape Province, NIEUWOUDTVILLE; UITKOMS FARM.
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Barcode: PRE0050968-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 12199 | 1945-10-25
South Africa, Western Cape, CLANWILLIAM; N. CEDERBERGEN; AT BOONTJIESKLOOF.
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Barcode: PRE0050966-0 Collector(s) & number: Hurling, Marloth 11928 | 1924-7-
South Africa, Western Cape, SWELLENDAM DIST.; BONNIEVALE
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Barcode: PRE0513174-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 3155 | 1976-5-19
South Africa, Northern Cape, WILLISTON; SLANGBERGE; S. OF WILLISTON.
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Barcode: PRE0050972-0 Collector(s) & number: Kerfoot, O, 5932 | 1967-9-
South Africa, Western Cape, CLANWILLIAM; MIDDELBURG; CEDARBERG
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Barcode: NBG1465283-0 Collector(s) & number: Manning, JC, 3449 | 2014-7-20
South Africa, Western Cape, Napier. Northern edge of town on rocky ridge.
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Barcode: PRE0050958-0 Collector(s) & number: Muir, J, 201 | 1909-4-
South Africa, Western Cape, RIVERSDALE DIV.; STILL BAY; PLATTEBOSCH IN THE DUINEN
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Barcode: PRE0050964-0 Collector(s) & number: Muir, J, 1026 | 1913-6-
South Africa, Western Cape, ALBERTINIA; IN BUSH AT OUDE TUIN
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Barcode: PRE0549801-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 3155 | 1976-5-19
South Africa, Northern Cape, WILLISTON; SLANGBERGE; S. OF WILLISTON
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Barcode: PRE0488986-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 3155 | 1976-5-19
South Africa, Northern Cape, SLANGBERGE; WILLISTON; SW. SLOPES OF KLOOF S. OF WILLISTON
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Barcode: NBG1465282-0 Collector(s) & number: Manning, JC, 3449 | 2014-7-20
South Africa, Western Cape, Napier. Northern edge of town on rocky ridge.
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Barcode: PRE0050971-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 2466 | 1898-5-29
South Africa, Eastern Cape, DOHNE PEAK
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Barcode: PRE0616791-0 Collector(s) & number: Smook, L, 3557 | 1981-4-
South Africa, Northern Cape, COLESBERG; S COLESBERG
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Barcode: PRE0050967-0 Collector(s) & number: Muller, P, 684 | 1969-4-23
South Africa, Eastern Cape, CRADOCK; OU KOP
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Barcode: PRE0679490-0 Collector(s) & number: Fellingham, AC, 675 | 1984-6-21
South Africa, Western Cape, DE HOOP; BETWEEN BUFFELFONTEIN AND RYSPUNT.
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Barcode: PRE0050959-0 Collector(s) & number: Muir, J, 5350 | 1913-6-
South Africa, Western Cape, RIVERSDALE
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Barcode: PRE0834475-0 Collector(s) & number: Geldenhuys, CJ, 671 | 1982-5-8
South Africa, Western Cape, George Distrik: Wildernes-Oos; Seekant (suid) van steil kusduin.
General notes: Det: N.L. Meyer
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Barcode: PRE0050963-0 Collector(s) & number: Ecklon, CF, PRE 22187 | 1830-8-
South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON; KLEINRIVIERSBERG
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Barcode: PRE0639957-0 Collector(s) & number: Goldblatt, P, 5509 | 1980-6-3
South Africa, Northern Cape, CALVINIA DIST.; C. 1 KM WEST OF NIEUWOUDTVILLE.
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Barcode: PRE0588407-0 Collector(s) & number: Meyer, JJ, 3687 | 2001-8-9
South Africa, Western Cape, Between Riversdal and Stilbaai. 20km north of Stilbaai.
General notes: Coastal fynbos. Flat growing. Two leaves leathery, young fruit green.
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Barcode: PRE0568561-0 Collector(s) & number: Brand, R, 200 | 2000-6-5
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Humansdorp. St Francis Bay.
General notes: Fynbos, dune (coastal). Soil. Well drained. Sand. Partial shade. Biotic effect: garden lawn mowed. Succulent. Flowers: white. Confirmed: E.T. Moeng 2001.
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Barcode: PRE0050965-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, Marloth 11908 | 1924-5-
South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.; STANFORD
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This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Hyacinthaceae Bredenkamp, CLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3)1771-1810
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2019
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
The genus Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. (Hyacinthaceae: Scilloideae) in the Core Cape Floristic Region Manning, JCSouth African Journal of Botany 121: 329-354
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Hyacinthaceae: Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Snijman, DAIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 112-112
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2012
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Massonia pustulata Jacq. 1791 and M. longipes Baker 1897 (Hyacinthaceae), two frequently misunderstood species – or how M. pustulata became depressed Wetschnig, W; Brudermann, A; Pinter, M; Pfosser, M; Knirsch, WStapfia 97: 210-221
1997
1943
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Massonia pustulata Jacq. Leighton, FM; Carter, BOFlowering Plants of South Africa 23: , t.915
1897
FLORA CHAPTER
CXXXVII. Liliaceae Baker, JGIn: WT Thiselton-Dyer (ed.), Haemodoraceae to Liliaceae. Flora Capensis 6: 253-528
Lovell Reeve & Co., London
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