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Moraea amissa

Family: Iridaceae

27 / 03 / 2006 | Ismail Ebrahim | CREW

Watsonia canaliculata

Family: Iridaceae

09 / 01 / 2006 | S Khanyile | KwaZulu-Natal NBG

Dierama pendulum

Common names: fairy bell, hair-bell, wedding bell (Eng.)

Family: Iridaceae

31 / 10 / 2005 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG

Watsonia borbonica

Common names: pink watsonia ( Eng. ); suurkanol, kanolpypie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

03 / 10 / 2005 | S Nonkenge | Kirstenbosch NBG

Moraea gigandra

Common names: grootflappie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

19 / 09 / 2005 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG

Babiana pygmaea

Common names: yellow babiana (Eng.); geelbobbejaantjie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

25 / 07 / 2005 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG

Dierama reynoldsii

Common names: This species does not appear to have a common name of its own, but the genus Dierama is known as hairbells, fairybells, wandflowers; grasklokkies (Afr

Family: Iridaceae

27 / 06 / 2005 | Hugh Glen | KwaZulu-Natal NBG

Crocosmia masoniorum

Common names: swan crocosmia

Family: Iridaceae

07 / 03 / 2005 | John Manning | Compton Herbarium

Chasmanthe aethiopica

Common names: small chasmanthe, small cobra lily (Eng.); suurkanolpypie, klein piempiempie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

... the southwestern and southern coast of South Africa. Few Iridaceae are used in traditional medicine or as food and ...

21 / 02 / 2005 | John Manning | Compton Herbarium

Freesia leichtlinii subsp. alba

Common names: white freesia, wild freesia (Eng.); ruikpypie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

... in Latin. Freesia belongs in the large and very diverse Iridaceae, a family of about 65 genera and 1 800 species ...

30 / 08 / 2004 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG

... but rare in tropical lowlands and at high latitudes. Iridaceae are best represented in southern Africa, especially ... are threatening many species with extinction. Members of Iridaceae occur in a great variety of habitats. About the ... and a dry summer. To search for more members of the family Iridaceae on this site, enter Iridaceae into the search box ...

17 / 05 / 2004 | John Manning | Compton Herbarium

Nivenia corymbosa

Common names: blue stars (Eng.); blousterretjie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

12 / 04 / 2004 | Trevor Adams | Kirstenbosch NBG

Watsonia hysterantha

Common names: autumn watsonia (Eng.); herfskanolpypie, suikerkan, rooipypie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

12 / 01 / 2004 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG

Crocosmia aurea

Common names: falling stars, valentine flower, montbretia (Eng.); valentynsblom (Afr.); umlunge, udwendweni (Zulu)

Family: Iridaceae

... of them occur in South Africa. C. aurea belongs to the Iridaceae family, which is commonly known as the iris family. ...

25 / 08 / 2003 | Mhlonishwa D Dlamini | Walter Sisulu NBG

Witsenia maura

Common names: Bokmakierie's tail (Eng.); waaiertjie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

... this plant occurs naturally. Witsenia was the first woody Iridaceae genus to be described and was named Antholyza maura ... Maurus is an adjective for Moorish in Latin. The woody Iridaceae include only thirteen species. The genus Witsenia ...

09 / 06 / 2003 | Antonia Xaba | Harold Porter NBG

Nivenia stokoei

Common names: Kogelberg blue stars, Stokoe's bush iris (Eng.), blousterretjie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

24 / 03 / 2003 | Berenice Carolus | Harold Porter NBG

Ixia viridiflora

Common names: green ixia (Eng.); groenkalossie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

28 / 10 / 2002 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG

Dietes bicolor

Common names: yellow wild iris, peacock flower (Eng.); uintjie, poublom (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

... at present unknown. Dietes bicolo r belongs to the family Iridaceae (iris family). These plants are perennial herbs in ... There are about 82 genera and 1700 species belonging to Iridaceae. Over half of the species of Iridaceae occur in South Africa, in 38 genera. Plants in the ...

17 / 06 / 2002 | Marc Stern | Walter Sisulu NBG

Dietes grandiflora

Common names: large wild iris, fairy iris (Eng.); groot wilde-iris (Afr); isiqungasehlati (Z)

Family: Iridaceae

21 / 01 / 2002 | Sharon Turner | Walter Sisulu NBG

Watsonia marginata

Common names: broad-leaf watsonia (Eng.), breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie (Afr.)

Family: Iridaceae

... flowers resemble. Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and ...

29 / 10 / 2001 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG

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