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Ixia pentandra

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Name

Identification
Ixia pentandra L.f. [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Ixia maculata L. [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Ixia pentandra
  • Ixia maculata

Flora

Entry for TRITONIA scillaris Baker [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
TRITONIA scillaris Baker [family IRIDACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 163;—Handb. Irid. 191.
Ixia scillaris Linn. [family IRIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. edit. 2. 52; Burm. Prodr. 1; Houtt. Handl. xi. 33, t. 77, fig. 2; Red. Lil. t. 127, non Thunb.
Ixia pentandra Linn. fil. [family IRIDACEAE], Suppl. 92; Thunb. Diss. No. 22; Prodr. 10.
Agretta pentandra Eckl. [family ], Top. Verz. 23.
Hesperantha pentandra [family IRIDACEAE], Herb. Drège.
Ixia reflexa Andr. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Rep. t. 14.
Ixia rotata Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Andr. Recens. 3.
Ixia retusa Salisb. [family IRIDACEAE], Prodr. 35.
Ixia polystachya Jacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Ic. t. 275. Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 629, non Linn.
Information
corm globose, 1/3– 1/2 in. diam.; tunics of thick parallel fibres; basal leaves 4–6, ensiform, glabrous, moderately firm in texture, 4–6 in. long, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad, not crisped; stem about 1 ft. long including the inflorescence, simple or branched; flowers in a lax spike 3–4 in. long with a flexuose axis; spathe-valves oblong, moderately firm in texture, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, deeply 2–3-fid; perianth pink; tube cylindrical, rather longer than the spathe; segments equal, oblong, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; stamens one-third the length of the perianth-limb; anthers 1/12 in. long, equalling the filaments; style not longer than the perianth-tube; branches falcate, 1/12 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Table Mountain, 250 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 274! Ecklon, 9b! 546! Lion Mountain, Bolus, 2826! Paarl Mountains, Drège! Malmesbury Div.; Klipberg, Drège! Var. β, on the Zwartberg near the Hot Springs, Caledon, Zeyher, 4008!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Forster! Burchell! Pappe!

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