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Helixyra simulans

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Identification
Helixyra simulans (Baker) N.E.Br. [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Gynandriris simulans Baker R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 12, Part 4, (1993) Author: P. Goldblatt
Names
Gynandriris cladostachya Baker R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE], in Contrib. Gray Herb., No. 114: 40 (1936).
Gynandriris simulans Baker R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE], in Contrib. Gray Herb., No. 114: 40 (1936). — Goldblatt in Bot. Not. 133: 252 (1980). Tab. 7 fig. A. Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Moraea simulans Baker [family IRIDACEAE], Handb. Irid.: 58 (1892). Type as above.
Moraea cladostachya Baker [family IRIDACEAE], Handb. Irid.: 58 (1892). Type from South Africa (Cape).
Moraea burchellii Baker [family IRIDACEAE], Handb. Irid.: 57 (1892). Type from South Africa (Cape).
Helixyra simulans Baker N.E. Br. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 17: 350 (1929); in Fl. Pl. S. Africa 16: Pl. 623 (1936).
Helixyra cladostachya Baker N.E. Br. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 17: 349 (1929).
Helixyra burchellii Baker N.E. Br. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 17: 349 (1929).
Helixyra elata N.E. Br. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 17: 349 (1929). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Helixyra mossii N.E. Br. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 17: 350 (1929). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Helixyra spicata N.E. Br. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 17: 349 (1929). Type from South Africa (Cape).
Helixyra propinqua N.E. Br. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 17: 349 (1929). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Gynandriris mossii N.E. Br. R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE], in Contrib. Gray Herb., No. 114: 40 (1936).
Gynandriris burchellii Baker R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE], in Contrib. Gray Herb., No. 114: 40 (1936).
Gynandriris elata N.E. Br. R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE], in Contrib. Gray Herb., No. 114: 40 (1936).
Gynandriris spicata N.E. Br. R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE], in Contrib. Gray Herb., No. 114:41 (1936).
Gynandriris propinqua N.E. Br. R.C. Foster [family IRIDACEAE], in Contrib. Gray Herb., No. 114: 40 (1936).
Information
Plants (10)14–40(45) cm high. Corms 1.5–2 cm in diameter; tunics dark-brown, coarsely fibrous; cormlets often present in leaf axils. Foliage leaves 1–2, exceeding the stem, 2–4 mm wide, linear, channelled. Stem either contracted and sometimes with several basal branches, or extended with abbreviated axillary branches and sometimes with longer basal branches. Spathes usually dry at flowering time, occasionally green below, the inner (25)30–55 mm long, the outer slightly shorter. Flowers pale blue-lilac with darker speckles on the tepal limbs, and with yellow nectar guides at the base of the outer tepal limbs; outer tepals (17)20–28 mm long, limb nearly equal to or slightly longer than the claw, and up to 8 mm wide, spreading to reflexed; inner tepals 15–19 × 3–4 mm, spreading to reflexed. Filaments 5–6 mm long, united basally for 1–1.5 mm; anthers (4)5–8 mm long. Style branches 8–12 mm long, crests 3–6 mm long. Capsule 13–20 mm long, oblong. Seeds large, blackish, angular.
Habitat
In xeric grassland and bush. usually in stony ground, especially in disturbed sites.
Distribution
Botswana SE c. 16 km N of Kanye, 27.ix.1964. Leach, Bayliss & Lamont 12478 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Transvaal, Orange Free State, Cape Province)
Lesotho
Notes
Flowering in August and September.The flowers open between 4 and 5 pm. and fade soon after nightfall. This species is distinguished by the tepals being mottled purple on a paler background.An early record from Zimbabwe [Bulawayo, viii.1876, Klingberg s.n. (S)] requires confirmation.

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