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Identification
Dietes bicolor (Steud.) Sweet ex Klatt [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for MORÆA bicolor Spae [family ]
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
MORÆA bicolor Spae [family ], in Flore des Serres, tab. 744;—Baker, Handb. Irid. 60.
Dietes bicolor Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxiv. 584; Ergänz. 40.
Iris bicolor Lindl. [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Reg. t. 1404; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1886; Paxt. Mag. ix. 29.
Information
habit of M. iridioides; rhizome short-creeping; leaves in a distichous, basal rosette, 1 1/2–2 ft. long, 1/2 in. broad; stems 1–2 ft. long; clusters few, laxly corymbose; spathes cylindrical, 2–3-flowered, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long; valves rigid in texture; outer short; expanded flower 2 in. diam., lemon-yellow, outer segments obovate-unguiculate, with no beard down the claw, and a blackish spot at the base of the blade, inner segments oblong-unguiculate, concolorous, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad; style-crests small, lanceolate-deltoid. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Bathurst Div.; among shrubs on the banks of the Kap River, MacOwan, 2986! and Herb. Aust. Afr., 1538! King Williamstown Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 232!
Notes
It was originally described and figured from the garden of the Comte de Vandes at Bayswater in 1831.

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