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Babiana Ker Gawl. ex Sims

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Babiana Ker Gawl. ex Sims, Bot. Mag. 15: 539 (1801)
Babiana Ker Gawl. ex Sims
Names_Fungi record source Babiana Ker Gawl. ex Sims 1801

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

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Ker Gawl. ex Sims
Sims
Ker Gawler, J.B. 1801: Ixia Conica. Orange-coloured Ixia. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 15: t. 539–next 3 pp.
1801
539
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Babiana Ker Gawl. ex Sims
genus
Babiana

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asparagales
Iridaceae
Babiana

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

Babiana Ker Gawl. ex Sims

Summer-green perennial. Corm small; tunic very tough. Stems usually hairy. Leaves usually strongly plicate. Spike simple or branched, pubescent. Flowers rich blue, mauve, crimson, cream or white, subzygomorphic, each within 2 lanceolate, hairy spathe-valves; tube straight, cylindric at base, widening to funnel-shaped above. Stamens asymmetrical. Style-branches short, undivided, usually flattened towards tip. Capsule many-seeded. Spp. c. 60 from tropical and S. Africa, and 1 from Socotra. Adventive sp. 1.

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

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

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Babiana Ker Gawl. ex Sims
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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ad652576-a2f2-4449-8318-f8d993960300
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
9 March 2022
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