Xenoscapa

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Xenoscapa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Iridaceae
Subfamily: Crocoideae
Tribe: Freesieae
Genus: Xenoscapa
(Goldblatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning. [1]
Type species
Xenoscapa fistulosa
(Sprengel ex Klatt) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

Xenoscapa is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the family Iridaceae. It consists of only three species distributed in Africa, and is closely related to the genera Freesia . [2] [3] The genus name is derived from the Greek words xenos, meaning "strange", and scapa, meaning "flowering stem". [4]

Species

The list of Xenoscapa species, with their complete name and authority, and their geographic distribution is given below. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Syst. Bot. 20: 172 (1995).
  2. ↑ Goldblatt, Peter; John Manning (2008). The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification. Portland: Timber Press. ISBN   978-0-88192-897-6.
  3. ↑ Peter Goldblatt and John C. Manning. 1995. Phylogeny of the African Genera Anomatheca and Freesia (Iridaceae: Ixioideae), and a New Genus Xenoscapa. Systematic Botany, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 161-178
  4. ↑ Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2008). The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. pp. 91–93. ISBN   978-0-88192-897-6.
  5. ↑ Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. World Checklist of Monocotyledons: Xenoscapa . Accessed May 16, 2009.


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