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Taxonomy

Notes:

A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Physical Description

Family Iridaceae:

Herbs perennial (or shrubs or annuals), with rhizomes, bulbs, or corms. Leaves alternate, often 2-ranked, often oriented edgewise to aerial stem, usually sword-shaped to linear, parallel veined, base sheathing. Inflorescence sometimes a spike or reduced to a solitary flower, more often of monochasial, umbellate cymes, each enclosed in 2 opposed bracts (spathes) and termed a rhipidium, which may be solitary and terminal or numerous and variously arranged in racemes or panicles; bracts 1 to several. Flowers bisexual, showy, usually actinomorphic (often zygomorphic elsewhere) . Perianth segments 6, in 2 whorls, inner and outer ones equal or differing in size and/or color; tube filiform or trumpet-shaped. Stamens (2 or) 3; anthers extrorse. Ovary inferior (or superior), 3-loculed; ovules few to many; placentation axile. Style with filiform, slender, or petaloid branches. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds with or without aril and wings.

Between 70 and 80 genera and ca. 1800 species: nearly worldwide, especially S Africa, Asia, and Europe; three genera and 61 species (21 endemic, one introduced) in China.^[1]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Babiana:

There are approximately 142 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: B. 'Blue Gem' · B. 'Laura' · B. 'Purple Star' · B. 'White King' · B. 'Zwanenburg's Glory' · B. adpressa · B. ambigua · B. angusta · B. angustifolia (Baboon Flower) · B. atrocyanea · B. atrodeltoidea · B. attenuata · B. auriculata · B. bainesii · B. bakeri · B. blanda · B. brachystachys · B. buchubergensis · B. caerulescens · B. caesia · B. carminea · B. cedarbergensis (Baboon Flower) · B. crispa · B. cuneata · B. cuneifolia · B. curviscapa · B. densiflora · B. disticha · B. dregei · B. ecklonii · B. erectifolia · B. falcata · B. fastigiata · B. fimbriata · B. flabellifolia · B. flavida · B. flavocaesia · B. foliosa · B. fourcadei · B. fragrans · B. framesii · B. framesii var. kamiesbergensis · B. gawleri · B. geniculata · B. gladiola · B. hiemalis · B. horizontalis · B. hybrids · B. hypogaea · B. hypogala · B. hypogea · B. intermedia · B. klaverensis · B. lata · B. latifolia · B. leipoldtii · B. lewisiana · B. lilacina · B. lineolata · B. lobata · B. longibracteata · B. longicollis · B. longiflora · B. macrantha · B. maculata · B. minuta · B. mononeura · B. montana · B. mucronata · B. multiflora · B. namaquensis · B. nana (Baboon Flower) · B. obliqua · B. obtusifolia · B. occidentalis · B. ochroleuca · B. odorata · B. orthosantha · B. parviflora · B. patersoneae · B. patersoniae · B. patula · B. pauciflora · B. pilosa · B. planifolia · B. plicata · B. praemorsa · B. pubescens · B. pulchella · B. pulchra · B. punctata · B. punicea · B. purpurea · B. pygmaea · B. quadripartita · B. reflexa · B. regia · B. ringens (Baboon Flower) · B. rosea · B. rubro-cyanea

Members of the genus Fuchsia:

There are approximately 4,993 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: F. microphylla aprica · F. microphylla chiapensis · F. microphylla hidalgensis · F. paniculata mixensis · F. rivularis pubescens · F. bacillaris · F. corallina · F. dominiana · F. exoniensis · F. standishii · F. 'A 1' · F. 'A.M. Larwick' · F. 'A.W. Taylor' · F. 'Aad Franck' · F. 'Aadenken Bert Pelgrims' · F. 'Aalt Groothuis' · F. 'Aan de Linge' · F. 'Aart Verschoor' · F. 'Aat van Wijk' · F. 'Abbé Farges' (Semi-Double Fuchsia) · F. 'Abbey Hill' · F. 'Abbey Kilner' · F. 'Abbigayle Reine' · F. 'Aber Falls' · F. 'Abigail Storey' · F. 'Abigail' · F. 'Abinger Fayre' · F. 'Abt. Koloman Holzinger' · F. 'Abundance' · F. 'Acapulco' · F. 'Acclamation' · F. 'Achievement' · F. 'Achilles' · F. 'Ada Perry' · F. 'Ada's Love' · F. 'Adagio' · F. 'Addington' · F. 'Adelaide Hoodless' · F. 'Adinda' · F. 'Admiration' · F. 'Adrian Young' · F. 'Adriene Bergen' · F. 'Adrienne' · F. 'Ahehee' · F. 'Aiguillette' · F. 'Ailsa Garnett' · F. 'Aintree' · F. 'Air Cadet Leah' · F. 'Airball' · F. 'Airedale' · F. 'Aisen' · F. 'Ajax' · F. 'Al Stettler' · F. 'Alabama Improved' · F. 'Aladna' · F. 'Aladna's Marina' · F. 'Aladna's Rosy' · F. 'Aladna's Sanders' · F. 'Alan Ayckbourn' · F. 'Alan Dyos' · F. 'Alan Hall' · F. 'Alan Stilwell' · F. 'Alan Titchmarsh' · F. 'Alan's Joy' · F. 'Alaska' · F. 'Alba Coccinea' · F. 'Albert H' · F. 'Albert Harkink' · F. 'Albertina' · F. 'Albertus Schwab' · F. 'Albion' · F. 'Alde' · F. 'Aldenhof' · F. 'Alderford' · F. 'Alerta Logue' · F. 'Alexandra Dyos' · F. 'Alexandrina' · F. 'Alf Thornley' · F. 'Alfie' · F. 'Alfred de Groot' · F. 'Alfred Rambaud' · F. 'Algerine' · F. 'Ali Harder' · F. 'Ali' · F. 'Alice Ashton' · F. 'Alice Blue Gown' · F. 'Alice Doran' · F. 'Alice Hoffman' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Alice Mary' · F. 'Alice Rowell' · F. 'Alice Stringer' · F. 'Alice Sweetapple' · F. 'Alice Topliss' · F. 'Alice Travis' · F. 'Alipat' · F. 'Alisha Jade' · F. 'Alison Ewart' · F. 'Alison Patricia' (Fuchsia) · F. 'Alison Reynolds' · F. 'Alison Ruth Griffin'

Bibliography

• Zhao Yu-tang. 1985. Iridaceae. In: Pei Chien & Ting Chih-tsun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 16(1): 120--198.

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1824406

Footnotes:

1. Yu-tang Zhao, Henry J. Noltie & Brian F. Mathew "Iridaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 297. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.