Click for help
Download Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Tritonia Ker Gawl.

Scientific name record
Names_Plants record source
Is NZ relevant
This is the current name
This record has descriptions
This is foreign

Click to collapse Details Info

Tritonia Ker Gawl., Bot. Mag. 581 (1802)
Tritonia Ker Gawl.
Names_Fungi record source Tritonia Ker Gawl. 1802Tritonia

Click to collapse Biostatus Info

Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)

Click to collapse Nomenclature Info

Ker Gawl.
Ker Gawl.
Ker Gawler, J.B. 1802: Curtis's Botanical Magazine: 581.
1802
581
ICN
Tritonia Ker Gawl.
genus
Tritonia

Click to collapse Classification Info

Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asparagales
Iridaceae
Tritonia

Click to collapse Descriptions Info

Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Tritonia Ker Gawl.

Summer-green perennial. Corm globose; tunic fibrous. Stem firm. Leaves distichous, narrow-ensiform. Inflorescence simple or branched, few- to many-flowered. Flowers white, cream, rose, orange or scarlet, each within 2 membranous spathe-valves; tube short, straight, cylindrical below, funnel-shaped above; lobes ± equal. Stamens asymmetric. Style-branches entire. Capsule oblong. Seeds many. Spp. c. 55 of tropical and S. Africa. Adventive spp. 2.

Click to collapse Taxonomic concepts Info

Tritonia Ker Gawl.
Tritonia Ker Gawl.
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)
Tritonia Ker Gawl.
Tritonia
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Tritonia Ker Gawl.
Iridaceae Juss.

Click to collapse Historic biostatus Info

Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Hobbs, J.; Hatch, T. (1994)

Click to collapse Metadata Info

a9e31d0a-b385-4c97-a45e-a30d455d7839
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 September 2008
Click to go back to the top of the page
Top