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ANOMATHECA Ker Gawl.
Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.
Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. (1995) Phylogeny of the African Genera Anomatheca and Freesia and a new genus Xenoscapa Systematic Botany 20(2) 161-178
Perennial herbs, dying back each year, with corms. Leaves several. Inflorescence a spike. Flowers zygomorphic, salver-shaped to widely funnel-shaped, often strongly and sweetly scented, in our species pink, red or whitish in colour (much more colour variation elsewhere). Tepals ± equal or dorsal larger and hooded. Style filiform, each branch deeply divided and recurved. Fruit a capsule. Derivation of name: Named after Dr HT Freese, 1795-?1876, from Kiel, a student of Ecklon who studied South African plants Worldwide: 17 species in tropical and South Africa Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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