https://www.gardenology.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=VelloziaVellozia - Revision history2026-04-10T04:07:28ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.0https://www.gardenology.org/w/index.php?title=Vellozia&diff=78482&oldid=prevMurali.lalitha: Created page with '{{SPlantbox |Min ht metric=cm |Temp Metric=°F |image=Upload.png |image_width=240 }} {{Inc| Vellozia (Velloz, a Portuguese naturalist). Velloziaceae; or Amaryllidaceae. Usually s…'2009-10-21T08:48:22Z<p>Created page with '{{SPlantbox |Min ht metric=cm |Temp Metric=°F |image=Upload.png |image_width=240 }} {{Inc| Vellozia (Velloz, a Portuguese naturalist). Velloziaceae; or Amaryllidaceae. Usually s…'</p>
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Vellozia (Velloz, a Portuguese naturalist). Velloziaceae; or Amaryllidaceae. Usually shrubs, sometimes arborescent, adapted to the warmhouse. Sts. fibrous-woody, usually dichotomously branched: lvs. linear, rigid, tufted at the ends of the branches: peduncles 1-fld.: fls. usually white; perianth funnel-shaped; segms. subequal, ovate-lanceolate; stamens 6, sometimes many; ovary clavate, 3-celled; ovules many, superposed: caps. coriaceous, dehiscing at the apex.—About 65 species, Trop. and S. Afr., Madagascar and Brazil. Vellozia is closely related to Barbacenia but distinguished by having more than 6 stamens, whereas Barbacenia has only 6. V. trichophylla, Hemsl. (V. equisetoides, W. Wats., not Baker. V. equisetoides var. trichophylla, Baker). Shrub having a thick caudex, 1 ft. or more diam. and short thick primary branches: lvs. numerous, grass-like, scarcely stiff, 3-9 in. long in cult. specimens (often 1-2 ft. long and more rigid in wild specimens), about 1/2 in. wide: peduncles usually in 3's, 1-fld.: fls. reddish lilac, very fragrant; perianth-segms. lanceolate, acute, 1-1 1/2 in. long. E. Trop. Afr. B.M. 7962. G.C. III. 34:425. Very little known in cult.<br />
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==References==<br />
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963<br />
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