PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / HYACINTHACEAE / ORNITHOGALOIDEAE / ALBUCA / ALBUCA / CAUDATA
Evergreen bulbous plants. Bulb mostly solitary and hypogeal, ovoid to oblong, up to 10 x 6 cm, usually with its wide basal plate elongated into a domed axis where the fleshy scales are attached; tunics fleshy, short and usually not reaching the top of the bulb, imbricate, persistent, papery grey or brownish in the upper part, sometimes with transversal prominent dark ridges, giving a brownish multiscaled appearance to the bulb in outline. Roots fleshy, thick and usually tuberose, white, numerous, up to 200 x 4 mm. Leaves 4-10, disposed in an apical rosette, linear-lanceolate, 15-120 x 0.5-2 cm, straight up and curving down when old, infolded, canaliculate, persistent, pale bright green to glaucous, glabrous, usually minutely papillate on nerves and margins, with a terete apex evident in young leaves. Inflorescence inclined, unilateral raceme, 11-40 cm long; peduncle 12-55 cm long; pedicels 3.5-9 cm long at base becoming smaller, up to 0.2-1 cm long near top, patent and being usually all erect; bracts ovate-lanceolate to triangular, long acuminate, 11-25 x 5-9 mm, papery white with brownish distant nerves that converge at the tips, much shorter than pedicels in the lower part of the inflorescence. Flowers erect; tepals white with a green median stripe 2-4 mm wide, sometimes with the tips yellowish; outer tepals oblong, 18-28 x 4-7 mm, apex slightly cucullate; inner tepals ovate, 15-24 x 4-10 mm, with apex strongly cucullate. Stamens all six bearing fertile anthers; outer anthers 1.5-2.5 mm long; inner anthers 3-4 mm long; outer filaments 10-16 x 1.5-2 mm, linear lanceolate to narrowly oblong, not pinched down; inner filaments 10-17 x 1.5-3 mm, linear oblong, wider and pinched in the lower half. Ovary oblong to obovate, up to 6-8 x 2-3.5 mm, stipitate, with prominent paraseptal crests that are divergent in the lower part and form three prominent ridges; style subobpyramidal or clavate, trigonous, up to 7-10 x 2 mm, stigma yellowish green. Capsule ovate, 14-20 x 10-14 mm, trigonous to subsphaerical in section, pale-brown when mature; valves splitting in the upper quarter. Seeds flat, c. 5-6 x 4-5 mm, dark brown to black, flattened and semidiscoidal, biseriate and horizontally stacked in each locule. From: Martinez-Azorin, M; Crespo, MB; Dold, AP; Barker, NP. 2011. The identity of Albuca caudata Jacq. (Hyacinthaceae) and a description of a new related species: A. bakeri. PhytoKeys 5: 5-19. [doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.5.1166] [All rights reserved]
Perennial geophyte, 0.3-0.5 m high; bulb globose, 50-66 mm in diam., tunics not splitting into fibres apically. Leaves 5 or 6, linear, glabrous, acuminate, 0.3-0.5 m long, 12 mm wide near base. Peduncles moderately robust, 0.15-0.27 m long. Inflorescence a lax raceme, 0.15-0.23 m long; pedicels ascending; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, up to 38 mm long. Flowers erect; perianth up to 25 mm long, white, green-banded. Stamens all fertile. Stigma with conical apex, entire. 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]
Albuca caudata can be easily identified by its bulb mostly solitary covered by brownish papery scales usually disposed at different heights and bearing long thick tuberose roots, its long and narrow canaliculate or infolded leaves, its inclined raceme, with usually all pedicels patent and erect, giving a unilateral appearance to the inflorescence, and its white erect flowers with a median green stripe. From: Martinez-Azorin, M; Crespo, MB; Dold, AP; Barker, NP. 2011. The identity of Albuca caudata Jacq. (Hyacinthaceae) and a description of a new related species: A. bakeri. PhytoKeys 5: 5-19. [doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.5.1166] [All rights reserved]
Often associated with bush-clumps, where the inclined inflorescence is supported by woody plants. From: Martinez-Azorin, M; Crespo, MB; Dold, AP; Barker, NP. 2011. The identity of Albuca caudata Jacq. (Hyacinthaceae) and a description of a new related species: A. bakeri. PhytoKeys 5: 5-19. [doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.5.1166] [All rights reserved]
Mountainous area, alt. 1167 m. Albany Thicket. 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]
Currently known from Addo in the west to Grahamstown in the east, with an outlying population as far inland as Somerset East. From: Martinez-Azorin, M; Crespo, MB; Dold, AP; Barker, NP. 2011. The identity of Albuca caudata Jacq. (Hyacinthaceae) and a description of a new related species: A. bakeri. PhytoKeys 5: 5-19. [doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.5.1166] [All rights reserved]
Somerset East, Bruintjieshoogte, Grahamstown District. 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]
September to November
600 to 900 m
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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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Names and Sources
Published in: Coll. 4: 203 (1791)
Ornithogalum aristatum J.C.Manning & Goldblatt, nom.nov. pro Albuca caudata Jacq.
Published in: Edinburgh J. Bot. 60(3): 547 (2004)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Hyacinthaceae
SUBFAMILY Ornithogaloideae
GENUS Albuca
SUBGENUS Albuca
SPECIES caudata
29 results for Albuca caudata Jacq.
Barcode: NBG1554735-1 Collector(s) & number: Perry, P.L., 571 | 1976-12-2
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. (Worcester). Spitzkop Worcester. Secund.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1554735-2 Collector(s) & number: Perry, P.L., 571 | 1976-12-2
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. (Worcester). Spitzkop Worcester. Secund.
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Barcode: PRE0842695-0 Collector(s) & number: Thomas, M, PRE 842695 | --
South Africa, Northern Cape, Farm Glen Lyon near Nieuwoudtville.
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Barcode: NBG1554740-0 Collector(s) & number: Forrester, J.A., s. n. | --
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. Worcester West. Ex hort 2 October 1985.
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Barcode: NBG1554732-0 Collector(s) & number: Walters, I.B., 1120 | 1963-9-19
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. Worcester. Riverside Worcester in sandy soil.
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Barcode: NBG1554569-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, J.P.H., 23090 | 1962-12-11
South Africa, Western Cape, Riversdale Dist. 4 m. W. of Albertinia turning, coastal fynbos. Alt: c. 500'.
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Barcode: PRE0048619-0 Collector(s) & number: Hall, H, 3801 | 1970-8-31
South Africa, Western Cape, VREDENDAL; 12 KM E. OF VREDENDAL.
General notes: In hard sanveld. Bulbs forming groups of 4-6.
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Barcode: NBG1554731-0 Collector(s) & number: Walters, I.B., 1309 | 1974-10-7
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. (Worcester). Worcester West Township.
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Barcode: NBG1554741-0 Collector(s) & number: Walters, I.B., 2330 | 1980-10-18
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. Worcester. In veld near Keyter rifle range.
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Barcode: NBG1554739-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, M.F., 2128 | 1974-10-10
South Africa, Western Cape, S. W. Cape Region. Worcester (KWV).
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0515618-0 Collector(s) & number: Rosch, MW, 962 | 1974-10-15
South Africa, Northern Cape, NAMAQUALAND; SPRINGBOK; HESTER MALAN WILD FLOWER RES. NABY PLOT 1
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Barcode: NBG1554730-0 Collector(s) & number: Perry, P.L., 71 | 1977-4-16
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. (Wuppertal). 7 km south Elandsvlei (off Ceres - Calvinia Road).
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Barcode: NBG0207357-0 Collector(s) & number: C.R.E.W., CR570 | 2004-9-29
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Kouga. Kouga region, Eastern Cape. Burnt patch of Renosterveld, near R102. 33°57.140' S; 24°58.205' E.
General notes: Fynbos biome. Renosterveld vegetation. Plain. Well-drained, clay soil. Shale. Full sun. No slope. Recently burned. 2 year old fire. Geophyte.
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Barcode: NBG1554736-0 Collector(s) & number: Perry, P.L., 471 | 1977-9-14
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. (Worcester). Brandvlei Dam.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1554159-0 Collector(s) & number: Hugo, L, 464 | 1976-9-9
South Africa, Western Cape, Van Rhynsdorp. 7 km on Kliprand road east of Nuwerus. Alt.: c. 1200 ft.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1554738-0 Collector(s) & number: Hilton-Taylor, C., 21 | 1985-9-17
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. Worcester Veld Reserve.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1554737-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, M.B., 255 | 1976-10-20
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. (Worcester). Karoo Garden Veld.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1554734-0 Collector(s) & number: Perry, P.L., 85 | 1977-4-18
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. (Worcester). Boskloof. de Wet.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1554733-0 Collector(s) & number: Bayer, M.B., 246 | 1976-10-6
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Region. (Worcester). Karoo Garden Veld.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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
2011
2009
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A molecular phylogeny and a revised classification of Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on an analysis of four plastid DNA regions Manning, JC; Forest, F; Devey, DS; Fay, MF; Goldblatt, PTaxon 58(1)77-107
2004
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A revised generic synopsis of Hyacinthaceae in sub-Saharan Africa, based on molecular evidence, incuding new combinations and the new tribe Pseudoprospereae Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Fay, JMEdinburgh Journal of Botany 60(3)533-568
No results found for Albuca caudata Jacq.
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