''Bulbinella barkerae'' is a species of plants in the family

Asphodelaceae Asphodelaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asparagales. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, but the circumscription has varied widely. In its current circumscription in the APG IV system, it includes about 40 ...

. It is found in the Cape Province of South Africa.

Description

''B. barkerae'' reaches up to 0.6 meters in height. It has ciliate leaf-margins, and relatively few, broad leaves. The cream-white flowers are distinctively fragrant (unlike those of the similar '' Bulbinella cauda-felis''). They appear in September and October, on a thin, cylindrical, apically pointed raceme.

Distribution and habitat

It is endemic to the southern parts of the

Western Cape Province The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

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. It naturally occurs in the regions of Caledon,

Bredasdorp Bredasdorp is a town in the Southern Overberg region of the Western Cape, South Africa, and the main economic and service hub of that region. It lies on the northern edge of the Agulhas Plain, about south-east of Cape Town and north of Cape Agul ...

, Potberg,

Swellendam Swellendam is the fifth oldest town in South Africa (after Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Simon's Town, and Paarl), a town with 17,537 inhabitants situated in the Western Cape province. The town has over 50 provincial heritage sites, most of them b ...

and Riversdale. Its preferred habitat is flat or gently sloping terrain, often of rocky shale or clay, in

renosterveld Renosterveld is a term used for one of the major plant communities and vegetation types of the Cape Floristic Region (Cape Floral Kingdom) which is located in southwestern and southeastern South Africa, in southernmost Africa. It is an ecoregion ...

vegetation.

References

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* Asphodeloideae Flora of South Africa barkerae Renosterveld {{Asphodelaceae-stub