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Sparaxis grandiflora

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Identification
Sparaxis grandiflora (D.Delaroche) Ker Gawl. [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for SPARAXIS grandiflora 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 grandiflora Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 225;—Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 779; Bot. Reg. t. 258; Gen. Irid. 94; Baker, Handb. Irid. 197.
Ixia grandiflora Delaroche [family IRIDACEAE], Descr. 23; Houtt. Handl. xii. 29, t. 77, fig. 3; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 541; Red. Lil. tt. 139 and 362.
Ixia bulbifera Thunb. [family IRIDACEAE], Diss. No. 17, ex parte.
Ixia aristata Ait. [family IRIDACEAE], Hort.Kew. i. 57; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 87, non Thunb.
Ixia monanthos Delaroche [family IRIDACEAE], Descr. 21.
Ixia uniflora Linn. [family IRIDACEAE], Mant. 27; Jacq. Ic. t. 283.
Ixia holosericea Jacq. [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 9, t. 17.
SPARAXIS fimbriata Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 226.
Ixia fimbriata Lam. [family IRIDACEAE], Encyc. iii. 339; Ill. i. 111.
Belamcanda semiflexuosa Moench [family IRIDACEAE], Meth. Suppl. 214.
SPARAXIS lacera Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Konig and Sims' Ann. i. 226.
SPARAXIS atropurpurea Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], Ergänz. 55.
SPARAXIS miniata Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], Ergänz. 55.
SPARAXIS Liliago Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501.
Ixia Liliago Red. [family IRIDACEAE], Lil. t. 109.
Ixia anemonæflora Red. [family IRIDACEAE], Lil. t. 85.
SPARAXIS stellaris D. Don [family IRIDACEAE], in Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 383.
Information
habit, corm, leaves and spathe just as in S. bulbifera, but the flowers larger, with a limb an inch or more long, and oblong segments often 1/2 in. broad, usually yellow or purple; spathes 3/4–1 in. long, laciniated half-way down; anthers also larger than in S. bulbifera. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Lion Mountain, Thunberg! Drège! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 276! Malmesbury Div.; near Groene Kloof, 300 ft., Bolus, 4344! Worcester Div., Zeyher! Cooper, 3178! Tulbagh Div.; Steendaal, near Tulbagh, 900 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 583! MacOwan, 2679! near Tulbagh, Thunberg!
Notes
Exceedingly variable in flower colouring, the principal named forms being atropurpurea, dark purple, anemonæflora, pale yellow, Liliago, white flushed with claret purple outside, and stellaris, dark purple, with oblanceolate, acute, narrower segments.

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