Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Angels Fishing Rod
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]
Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: July, August. • Flower Color: magenta
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 24-36" tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 18-24" apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Liliidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lilianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Asparagales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Iridaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- Iris Family
- Subfamily:
Crocoideae
()
- Subfamily:
Crocoideae
(
- Family:
Iridaceae
(
- Order:
Asparagales
(
- Superorder:
Lilianae
(
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Hilliard Publication
: Notes
Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh
45(1): 79 1988
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Sep-2004
Similar Species
Members of the genus Dierama
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
D. ambiguum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. dissimile (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. dracomontanum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. galpinii (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. igneum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. latifolium (African Hairbell) · D. luteoalbidum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. medium (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. pendulum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. pulcherrimum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. pulcherrimum 'Candy Stripe' (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. pulcherrimum 'Snowbells' (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. reynoldsii (Fairy Bells) · D. robustum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. 'Blackbird' (Angels Fishing Rod)
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Further Reading
- Zhao Yu-tang. 1985. Iridaceae. In: Pei Chien & Ting Chih-tsun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 16(1): 120--198.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 17, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10681054
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-327888
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15523869
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:934744-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 934744-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 733522
Footnotes
- 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. [back]
