Taxon: Freesia laxa (Thunb.) Goldblatt & J. C. Manning

• the 3 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide P. Goldblatt, pers. comm. 2011)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga; Swaziland

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Zaire - Shaba
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: Hong Kong
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida

• also cultivated

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Goldblatt, P. & J. C. Manning. 1995. Phylogeny of the African genera Anomatheca and Freesia (Iridaceae: Ixioideae), and a new genus Xenoscapa. Syst. Bot. 20:161–178.
• Goldblatt, P. 2011. Review of Iridaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e–mail on 8 Mar.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Freesia laxa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Freesia laxa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Freesia laxa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Anomatheca cruenta Lindl.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Anomatheca laxa (Thunb.) Goldblatt
  
• (≡) Gladiolus laxus Thunb. (basionym)
  
• (=) Lapeirousia cruenta (Lindl.) Benth. ex Baker
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)

Check other web resources for Freesia laxa (Thunb.) Goldblatt & J. C. Manning:

• 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
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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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