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Ixia L.

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Ixia L., Sp. Pl. 36 (1753)
Ixia L.

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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
36
ICN
Ixia L.
genus
Ixia

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Ixia L.

Summer-green perennial. Corm small; tunic fibrous. Stem wiry, simple or occasionally branched. Leaves few, distichous, grass-like, soft to firm; veins prominent. Inflorescence simple or branched, few- to many-flowered. Flowers usually many, mostly actinomorphic, colours various, spirally and ± densely arranged on the slender scape, each within 2 membranous or chartaceous, usually brown, ovate, truncate, usually tridentate, spathe-valves; tube short or long, straight, cylindrical and slender or dilated above; lobes subequal, spreading. Stamens symmetrical. Style-branches entire, subulate or filiform. Capsule oblong to globose, thin-walled. Seeds many, small, brown, ± angled. Spp. c. 45, 1 of tropical Africa, remainder from S. Africa. Adventive spp. 2.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Ixia L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District

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a0f42a5a-daea-49a7-9fa9-6fc501471f21
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1 January 2000
15 September 2008
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