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Dietes iridioides

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Identification
Dietes iridioides (L.) Sweet ex Klatt [family IRIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for MORÆA iridioides Linn. [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 iridioides Linn. [family ], Mant. 28;—Thunb. Diss. No. 18; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 196 (excl. syn.); Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 693.
Iris compressa Linn. fil. [family IRIDACEAE], Suppl. 98; Thunb. Diss. No. 12; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 147; Handb. Irid. 60.
Dietes iridifolia Salisb. [family IRIDACEAE], in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 307.
Dietes compressa Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxiv. 584.
Dietes iridioides Sweet [family IRIDACEAE], Brit. Flow. Gard. edit. ii. 497.
Moræa vegeta Mill. [family ], Dict. edit. viii. No. 1; Icones, tab. 239, fig. 1, non Linn. nec Jacq.
Iris crassifolia Lodd. [family IRIDACEAE], Bot. Cab. t. 1861.
Iris moræoides Ker [family IRIDACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 1407; Gen. Irid. 64.
Dietes crassifolia Klatt [family IRIDACEAE], Ergänz. 40.
Information
rhizome short-creeping, as thick as a man's finger; leaves in crowded, fan-shaped, basal rosettes, equitant, dark green, rigid in texture, 1–2 ft. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; stems 1–2 ft. long, with many short, sheathing, lanceolate, rudimentary leaves, sometimes procumbent, elongated, and viviparous; clusters few, laxly corymbose; spathes cylindrical, 1 1/2–2 in. long, 3–4-flowered; valves firm in texture, not pointed; outer small; perianth white, about 1 1/2 in. long; all the segments spreading outer obovate-unguiculate, with a beard down the claw, and a yellow keel at the base of the blade inner narrower, concolorous; ovary cylindrical, 1/2 in. long; style and filaments joined in a tube at the base; style-crests lanceolate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; capsule ellipsoid, obtusely-angled, 1–1 1/2 in. long. null
Range
Also hills of Zambesi country, Kirk!
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div., Boschberg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1845!COAST REGION George Div., Drège, 4555a! Burchell, 6047! Humansdorp Div., near Zeekoe R., Thunberg; Uitenhage, Zeyher, 797! Bathurst Div., Burchell, 4011! Albany Div., Cooper, 1528!EASTERN REGION Natal; Groenberg, Wood, 1099!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Barberton, 3500–4000 ft., Galpin, 1206!

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