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Taxon: Babiana stricta (Aiton) Ker Gawl.

Genus: Babiana
Family: Iridaceae subfamily: Ixioideae tribe: Ixieae.
Nomen number: 401568
Place of publication: Bot. Mag. 17: t. 621, 637. 1803
Name verified on: 14-Apr-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 08-May-2000
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • babiana   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • baboon-flower   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  • fleur des babouins   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  • flor-de-veludo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • gerippte Pavianblume   (Source: Zander ed17 )

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

Native:
  • AFRICA
    Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province

References:

  • Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. (Pl SAfr)
  • Bond, P. & P. Goldblatt. 1984. Plants of the Cape Flora, J. S. African Bot. suppl. vol. 13. (L Cape)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • Gibbs Russell, G. E. et al. 1985. List of species of Southern African plants, ed. 2. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa v. 51.; v. 56. 1987 (L SAfr)
  • Goldblatt, P. & J. Manning. 2000. Cape plants: a conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa. Strelitzia vol. 9. (Cape Pl)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Babiana stricta (Aiton) Ker Gawl.:

  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?401568 (21 November 2009)

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