Taxon: Crocosmia ×crocosmiiflora (Lemoine) N. E. Br.

Common names:

• autumn-gold   (Source: J SAfr Bot 50:499.) – English
  
• garden montbretia   (Source: J SAfr Bot 50:499.) – English
  
• montbretia   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Garten-Montbretie   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• montbretia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed14)
  
• Weed   (in Australia fide J. R. Hosking, pers. comm. (via email on 14 June 2000))
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Ireland; United Kingdom
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Misiones, Salta; Chile

• widely cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. [lists as C. ×crocosmiiflora (Lemoine ex Burb. & Dean) N. E. Br.].
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Castroviejo, S. et al., eds. 1989–. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. [lists as C. ×crocosmiiflora (Burb. & Dean) N. E. Br.].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Hosking, J. R. 2000. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [lists as C. ×crocosmiiflora (Burb. & Dean) N. E. Br.].
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jorgensen, P. M., ed. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia (Catalogue of vascular plants of Bolivia) (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Nelson, E. C. 1993. Who was the author of Montbretia crocosmiiflora? Watsonia 19:265–267. [lists as C. ×crocosmiiflora (Lemoine) N. E. Br.].
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• The Missouri Botanical Garden with others. A Catalogue of the vascular plants of Madagascar (on-line resource).
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1996. IX. Overlooked genera and species in the Malesian flora: the case of Crocosmia (Iridaceae) and some others. Fl. Males. Bull. 11:511–514. [lists as C. ×crocosmiiflora (Lemoine ex E. Morren) N. E. Br.].
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• de Vos, M. P. 1984. The African genus Crocosmia Planchon. J. S. African Bot. 50:497. [lists as C. ×crocosmiiflora (Lemoine ex E. Morren) N. E. Br.].

More:

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Montbretia ×crocosmiiflora Lemoine (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Tritonia ×crocosmiiflora (Lemoine) G. Nicholson
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Crocosmia ×crocosmiiflora (Lemoine) N. E. Br.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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