Common Names
Common Names in English:
African Hairbell, Angels Fishing Rod, Wandflower
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, pink
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 36-48" tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 12-15" apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 7a, 7b, 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:
Liliopsida
()
- Scopoli, 1760
- Subclass:
Liliidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : N.E.Br. Publication : in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. liv. 199 (1929)A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Dierama
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 136 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
D. adelphicum · D. ambiguum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. argyreum · D. 'Ariel' · D. atrum · D. 'Ballerina' · D. 'Blackbird' (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. 'Black Knight' · D. 'Blush' · D. 'Candy Stripe' · D. 'Castlewellan' · D. 'Cherry Chimes' · D. cooperi · D. cooperi 'Edinburgh White' · D. 'Coral Bells' · D. 'Coral Pink' · D. 'Cosmos' · D. cupuliflorum · D. davyi · D. densiflorum · D. dissimile (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. 'Donard Legacy' · D. dracomontanum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. dracomontanum dwarf lilac · D. dracomontanum dwarf pale pink · D. dracomontanum dwarf pink · D. dracomontanum Wisley Princess Group · D. dracomontanum × pulcherrimum · D. dubium · D. dubium × robustum · D. elatum · D. ensifolia · D. ensifolium · D. erectum · D. 'Fairy Bells' · D. 'Fireworks' · D. floriferum · D. formosum · D. galpinii (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. grandiflorum · D. grandiflorum 'Boschberg' · D. 'Guinevere' · D. 'Hermia' · D. igneum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. insigne · D. inyangense · D. 'Iris' · D. jucundum · D. 'Juno' · D. 'Knee-high Lavender' · D. 'Lancelot' · D. latifolium (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. longistylum · D. luteo-albidum · D. luteoalbidum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. 'Mariana' · D. medium (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. 'Milkmaid' · D. 'Miranda' · D. mobile · D. mossii · D. nebrownii · D. nixonianum · D. 'Oberon' · D. pallidum · D. 'Pamina' · D. pansum · D. 'Papagena' · D. 'Papageno' · D. parviflorum · D. pauciflorum · D. pendula · D. pendulum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. pendulum var. pumilum · D. pendulum × pulcherrimum · D. peregrine · D. 'Petite Fairy' · D. pictum · D. Plant World hybrids · D. plowesii · D. 'Pretty Flamingo' · D. 'Puck' · D. pulcherrima · D. pulcherrimum (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. pulcherrimum 'Angel Gabriel' · D. pulcherrimum 'Blackbird' · D. pulcherrimum brick red · D. pulcherrimum brick shades · D. pulcherrimum 'Candy Stripe' (Angels Fishing Rod) · D. pulcherrimum dark pink · D. pulcherrimum 'Donard Dwarf' · D. pulcherrimum dwarf · D. pulcherrimum 'Falcon' · D. pulcherrimum 'Flamingo' · D. pulcherrimum 'Flaring Tips' · D. pulcherrimum 'Heron' · D. pulcherrimum 'Kingfisher' · D. pulcherrimum lilac-flowered · D. pulcherrimum 'Merlin' · D. pulcherrimum 'Pearly Queen'
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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.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 1, 2006.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8745709
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:436846-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 436846-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1003422
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]
