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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]

Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February. • Flower Color: green, maroon, red, yellow

Distribution

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lachenalia:

There are approximately 246 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: L. comesi · L. nelsonii · L. regeliana · L. 'Fransie' · L. 'Indian Prince' · L. 'Lemon Ripple' · L. 'Namakwa' · L. 'Nova' · L. 'Robekkie' · L. 'Robijn' · L. 'Rolina' · L. 'Romaud' (Cape Cowslip) · L. 'Romelia' · L. 'Ronina' (Wild Hyacinth) · L. 'Rosabeth' (Wild Hyacinth) · L. 'Rupert' (Cowslip) · L. 'Violet Queen' · L. alba · L. albida · L. algoensis · L. aloides (Cape Cowslip) · L. aloides 'Balfour's' · L. aloides 'Nelsonii' · L. aloides 'Pearsonii' (Cape Cowslip) · L. aloides (L.f.) Engl. var. aloides · L. aloides var. aurea (Cape Cowslip) · L. aloides var. luteola · L. aloides var. quadricolor (Cape Cowslip) · L. aloides var. vanzyliae · L. aloides var. vanzyliae × orchioides var. glaucina · L. aloides-Hybride 'Nelsonii' · L. aloides-Hybride 'Quadricolor' · L. ameliae · L. angelica · L. anguinea · L. angustifolia · L. arbuthnotiae · L. attenuata · L. aurea · L. aurioliae · L. bachmanii · L. bachmanni · L. bachmannii · L. barkeriana · L. bicolor · L. bifolia · L. bolusii · L. botryoides · L. bowieana · L. bowkeri · L. brevipes · L. buchubergensis · L. bulbifera (Lachenalia) · L. bulbifera 'George' · L. bulbifera 'Mandarin' · L. bulbifera pink · L. cami · L. campanulata · L. capensis · L. carnosa · L. cernua · L. comptonii · L. concordiana · L. congesta · L. contaminata (Wild Hyacinth) · L. convallariodora · L. convallarioides · L. cooperi · L. corymbosa · L. dasybotrya · L. declinata · L. dehoopensis · L. doleritica · L. duncanii · L. elegans · L. elegans var. flava · L. elegans var. membranacea · L. elegans var. suaveolens · L. elegans W.F.Barker var. flava W.F.Barker · L. ensifolia · L. esterhuysenae · L. fistulosa · L. flava · L. fragrans · L. framesii · L. giessii · L. gillettii · L. glaucina · L. glaucina 'Wrangle Blue' · L. glaucophylla · L. graminifolia · L. haarlemensis · L. hermionae · L. hirta · L. hirta var. exserta · L. hyacinthoides · L. hybrid Lac. 213 · L. inconspicua · L. isopetala · L. juncifolia

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

Contributors:

• Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 1, 2006.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Identifiers:

• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 963856

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.