Ferraria glutinosa (Baker) Rendle

glutinosa: like glue in texture; sticky, glutinous; referring to the sticky upper parts of the branches.

Perennial herb up to c. 70 cm high with an annual stem growing from a depressed-globose corm 10-40 mm in diameter. Leaves several, about half as long as the stem, 4-8 mm wide, linear, often still short or not developed at flowering time. Stem laxly and repeatedly branched, densely brown sticky below the nodes. Flowers in solitary, 2-6-flowered rhipidia per branch. Tepals 25-35 mm long lanceolate, brown, maroon or purple, more or less heavily spotted with yellow, sometimes colouring reversed with a yellowish base and darker spotting; margins crisped. Filaments united in the basal part, forming a column, 8-10 mm long. Style diverging into 3 flattened branches, finely fringed at the apices.

Locally frequent

Angola, Botswana, DRC (Shaba), Namibia, Malawi, Zambia Zimbabwe and Northern Cape, South Africa

Ferraria glutinosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Diên vĩ. Loài này được (Baker) Rendle miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1899.