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1316.000 Freesia
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
Description of the genus
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 taxon. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| grandiflora (Baker) Klatt subsp. grandiflora | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Freesia:
Our websites:
Flora of Malawi: FreesiaFlora of Mozambique: Freesia
Flora of Zambia: Freesia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Freesia
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): FreesiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Freesia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Freesia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Freesia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Freesia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Freesia
JSTOR Plant Science: Freesia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Freesia
Plants of the World Online: Freesia
Tropicos: Freesia
Wikipedia: Freesia
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