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Sparaxis cana

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Name

Identification
Sparaxis cana Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Sparaxis cana Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Sparaxis grandiflora (D.Delaroche) Ker Gawl. [family IRIDACEAE ] Verified by Goldblatt, P., 1971
Related name
  • Sparaxis grandiflora
  • Sparaxis cana

Flora

Entry for SPARAXIS tricolor Ker [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
SPARAXIS tricolor Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 225;—Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1482, and sub t. 779; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, i. 85; Ker, Gen. Irid. 93; Baker, Handb. Irid. 197.
Ixia tricolor Curt. [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 381; Schneev. Ic. t. 39; Red. Lil. t. 129.
Streptanthera tricolor Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], Ergänz. 56.
Streptanthera lineata Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], Ergänz. 56.
Sparaxis versicolor Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 160.
Sparaxis Griffini Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501. Klatt, Ergänz. 55.
Sparaxis blanda Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501. Klatt, Ergänz. 55.
Sparaxis lineata Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 131.
Sparaxis meleagris Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE], Top. Verz. 27–28.
Sparaxis cana Eckl. [family IRIDACEAE], Top. Verz. 27–28.
Information
differs only from S. grandiflora in the colour of the flowers, which are fulvous, dark purple, yellow, more or less flushed with brown purple, or white flushed on the back with claret-purple in the upper half, but have always a bright yellow throat with a dark cuneate, emarginate blotch at the base of each segment. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 942!
Notes
The favourite species of cultivators. Figures of a series of garden forms will be found in Van Houtte's Flore des Serres, vol. ii. July, 1846.

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