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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 Anemone:

There are approximately 992 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: A. alpina apiifolia · A. alpina font-queri · A. amurensis kamtschatica · A. baikalensis rossii · A. demissa villosissima · A. dichotoma pennsilvanica · A. geum ovalifolia · A. narcissiflora fasciculata · A. narcissiflora interior · A. narcissiflora protracta · A. narcissiflora sachalinensis · A. narcissiflora villosissima · A. narcissiflora zephyra · A. narcissifolia biarmiensis · A. narcissifolia willdenowii · A. nemorosa americana · A. nemorosa ranunculoides · A. nemorosa trifolia · A. obtusiloba leiophylla · A. obtusiloba megaphylla · A. obtusiloba nepalensis · A. obtusiloba potentilloides · A. pratensis ubra · A. pulsatilla gotlandica · A. quinquefolia grayi · A. rupestris polycarpa · A. rupicola laceratoincisa · A. rupicola reniformis · A. rupicola sericea · A. silvestris ochotensis · A. smithiana sericea · A. trifolia brevidentata · A. trifolia lancifolia · A. umbrosa extremiorientalis · A. umbrosa sciaphila · A. 'Alice' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Andrea Atkinson' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Avalanche' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Blue Gown' · A. 'Bodnant Burgundy' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Bressingham Glow' (Bressingham Glow Windflower) · A. 'Elegans' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'French Hill' · A. 'Green Apples' · A. 'Guernica' · A. 'Hadspen Abundance' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Hatakeyama Double' · A. 'Hatakeyama Single' · A. 'Honorine Jobert' (Honorine Jobert Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Krimhilde' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Lady Gilmour' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Lorelei' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Margarete' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Orange King' · A. 'Pamina' (Japanese Thimbleflower) · A. 'Party Dress' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Prince Henry' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Queen Charlotte' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'Rosenschale' (Japanese Anemone) · A. 'September Charm' · A. 'Serenade' (Japanese Thimbleflower) · A. 'Stuttgardia' · A. 'Taiwan's Tiny Treasure' · A. 'Whirlwind' (Japanese Thimbleflower) · A. abdurrehmanii · A. acanthifolia · A. aconitifolia · A. acuta · A. acutipetala · A. adamsiana var. minor · A. aequinoctialis · A. aff. polyanthes · A. aff. rivularis · A. affinis · A. afghanica · A. agrimonioides · A. ajanensis · A. alaschanica · A. alba · A. albana · A. albida · A. albiflora · A. albomerus · A. alborosea · A. alchemillaefolia · A. almaatensis · A. alpicola · A. alpina · A. altaica · A. amagisanensis · A. ambigua · A. amurensis · A. angulosa · A. angustiloba · A. anhuiensis · A. anomala · A. antucensis · A. apeninna · A. apennina (Apennine Anemone) · A. apennina 'Ballyrogan Park'

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: 1819508

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.