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Taxon: Moraea miniata Andrews

Genus: Moraea subgenus: Moraea section: Homeria
Family: Iridaceae subfamily: Iridoideae tribe: Irideae.
Nomen number: 401847
Place of publication: Bot. Repos. 6: t. 404. 1804
Comment: authorship of names in this work follows Vienna ICBN Art. 46.7; there is no internal evidence in the work for any author other than Andrews (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 7 Aug 2006)
Name verified on: 15-Sep-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Sep-2008
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL NOXIOUS WEED
A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS (as Homeria spp.).

Common names:

  • two-leaf Cape-tulip   (Source: Noxweed Aust as Homeria miniata)

Economic importance:

  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al., as Homeria miniata)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Noxweed Aust, as Homeria miniata)
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Distributional range:

Native:
  • AFRICA
    Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province [w. & s.w.]

References:

  • Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. (Pl SAfr ed2)
  • Goldblatt, P. 1981. Systematics and biology of Homeria (Iridaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 68:485. [= Homeria miniata (Andrews) Sweet].
  • Goldblatt, P. 1998. Reduction of Barnardiella, Galaxia, Gynandriris, Hexaglottis, Homeria, and Roggeveldia in Moraea (Iridaceae: Irideae). Novon 8:375.
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust) [= Homeria miniata].
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Moraea miniata Andrews:

  • 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.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • 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?401847 (22 November 2009)

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