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Ixia monadelpha

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Identification
Ixia monadelpha D.Delaroche [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Entry for IXIA monadelpha Delaroche [family IRIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 7, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
IXIA monadelpha Delaroche [family IRIDACEAE], Descr. 22;—Burm. Prodr. 1; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 607; Gen. Irid. 101; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 92; Handb. Irid. 164.
Morphixia monadelpha Klatt [family ], Ergänz. 50.
IXIA columnaris Salisb. [family IRIDACEAE], Prodr. 36.
Information
corm globose, 1/2 in. diam., with fibrous tunics; leaves linear, glabrous, moderately firm in texture, 1/8– 1/3 in. broad; stems slender, terete, simple or branched; flowers few, arranged in a short spike; outer spathe-valve oblong, pale green, tricuspidate, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; perianth-tube cylindrical, as long as or twice as long as the spathe; limb campanulate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, very variable in colour, in the type lilac, with a greenish or blue throat; filaments dark-blue, 1/12 in. long, united in a column; anthers linear, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; style-branches much shorter than the anthers. null
Distribution
COAST REGION near Groene Kloof, Ecklon, 442! Hout Bay, MacOwan, 2431! and MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 266!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Villett! Mund! Drège, 8373!
Notes
The following named forms differ from the type only in flower-colouring, viz.: M. purpurea, Klatt, Ergänz. 49 (Ixia columnaris, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 203), limb concolorous, claret-red, with narrow segments; M. latifolia, Klatt, Ergänz. 51 (Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 213; Galaxia ixiæflora vel ramosa, Red. Lil. t. 41), blue with a brownish throat; M. versicolor, Klatt, Ergänz. 51 (Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 211), pale yellow, with a large black spot with radiating reddish lines; M. curta, Klatt, Ergänz. 50 (Ixia curta, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 564; I. monadelpha, var. curta, Ker, Bot. Mag. t. 1378), limb fulvous, with a reddish-green throat, and large flowers with very broad segments. M. grandiflora, Klatt, Ergänz. 49 (Bot. Rep. t. 250; Ixia grandiflora, Pers. Syn. i. 48) is a large-flowered form with a lilac limb with an obscure blue throat.

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