PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / AMARYLLIDACEAE / CYRTANTHEAE / CYRTANTHUS / FALCATUS

Cyrtanthus falcatus R.A.Dyer
LC Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

Bulb globose to ovoid [as 'avoid'], 5-8 cm in diam., budding freely from the base, contracted into a neck 8-12 cm long, densely covered with membranous tunics. Leaves usually 4, contemporary with flowers or produced during flowering periods, falcate, evenly narrowed to the apex, about 25 cm long, 2-3 cm broad, leathery. Peduncle 25-30 cm tall, recurved and somewhat flattened just below the umbel, making the whole umbel pendulous. Spathe-valves about 4, oblong- or linear-lanceolate, the largest up to 5 cm long and 1.25 cm broad. Pedicels about 1 cm long. Flowers 6-10 in an umbel, pendulous; perianth about 6 cm long, red, evenly dilated from the base to a throat about 1 cm wide; tube 4 cm long; lobes more or less obovate-oblong, about 2 cm long and 1.25 cm broad, the outer three with an indexed apiculus with a few hairs. Stamens uniseriate or very indistinctly biseriate, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments exserted, about 1.25 cm long, bases extended into a sub-coronal ridge, sometimes with basal lobules. Ovary oblong, becoming oblong-elliptic. Style slightly shorter than the perianth, trifid. From: Reid, C; Dyer, RA. 1984. A review of the southern African species of Cyrtanthus. American Plant Life Society, La Jolla Stanford. [All rights reserved]

Diagnostic description

In the natural habitat the large bulbs hang down from vertical cliff faces. The peduncle curves upward so that it is erect, then at the apex bends sharply downward so that the entire umbel is pendulous. In cultivation, if the bulbs are planted erect, the peduncle retains the sharp bend below the umbel. Ising (1962) has shown that the karyotype differs from that of all other Cyrtanthus species: the long arm of chromosome C has a pronounced secondary constriction. From: Reid, C; Dyer, RA. 1984. A review of the southern African species of Cyrtanthus. American Plant Life Society, La Jolla Stanford. [All rights reserved]

Habitat

Vertical cliff faces. From: Reid, C; Dyer, RA. 1984. A review of the southern African species of Cyrtanthus. American Plant Life Society, La Jolla Stanford. [All rights reserved]

Distribution

Natal midlands. From: Reid, C; Dyer, RA. 1984. A review of the southern African species of Cyrtanthus. American Plant Life Society, La Jolla Stanford. [All rights reserved]

Flowering time

September

Altitude

1100 to 1800 m

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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NC

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GA

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NW

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Invasive

Names and Sources

Accepted name
Cyrtanthus falcatus R.A.Dyer

Published in: Herbertia 6: 76 (1940)

Synonym(s)

Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Asparagales

FAMILY Amaryllidaceae

TRIBE Cyrtantheae

GENUS Cyrtanthus

SPECIES falcatus

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Barcode: NH0057602-3 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 7688 | 1967-9-22

General notes: Greenish to red flowers. 8 bulbs to PRE.

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Barcode: NH0057602-2 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 7688 | 1967-9-22

General notes: Greenish to red flowers. 8 bulbs to PRE.

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Barcode: NH0022186-0 Collector(s) & number: Anderson, KW, s.n. | 1932-9-

General notes: Flowers deep rose-pink. Among rocks at waterfall. Bulbs about 2 ins in diam tunics dark brown, membranous. Leaves 4 ; 10-10 1/2 inslong, 3/4 inwide at middle, faculate. Pedicels recurved at apex

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Barcode: NBG0180931-0 Collector(s) & number: Anderson, 22186 | 1932-9-

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Barcode: NBG0182510-0 Collector(s) & number: Unknown, s.n. | --

General notes: Bulbs dividing and forming clumps, half exposed above ground. Leaves shiny green, revurved, 4 - 5 per bulb, without a thickened midrib. Scape hollow at the base in TS NBG 912/82. Fl. ex Hort NBG 17/10/2001.

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Barcode: PRE0080485-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 7688 | 1967-9-

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Barcode: PRE0080478-0 Collector(s) & number: van Breda, PAB, 2326 | 1968-1-16

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Barcode: NH0057602-1 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 7688 | 1967-9-22

General notes: Greenish to red flowers. 8 bulbs to PRE.

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Barcode: PRE0080487-0 Collector(s) & number: Symons, RE, s.n.(PRE24804) | --

General notes: Symons, R.E. s.n. = PRE 24804.

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Barcode: PRE0080486-0 Collector(s) & number: Wright, FB, PRE 37758 | 1967-9-

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Barcode: PRE0080484-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 7688 | 1967-9-22

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Barcode: PRE0080483-0 Collector(s) & number: Wright, FB, 9757 | 1968-9-16

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Barcode: NH0030339-0 Collector(s) & number: Carter, A, s.n. | 1936-9-

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Barcode: NBG0180930-0 Collector(s) & number: Carter, A, s.n. | 1936-9-

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Barcode: NH0118961-0 Collector(s) & number: Von Fintel, M, 12 | 1995-9-18

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2016

BOOK

The Amaryllidaceae of southern Africa Duncan, GD

Umdaus Press, Pretoria

1984

BOOK

A review of the southern African species of Cyrtanthus Reid, C; Dyer, RA

American Plant Life Society, La Jolla Stanford

1971

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

Cyrtanthus falcatus R.A.Dyer Dyer, RA; Merwe, AH

Flowering Plants of Africa 41: , t.1632

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