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Gladiolus natalensis Reinw. ex Hook.f.

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Hook.f.
Reinw. ex Hook.f.
1831
illegitimate, superfluous
ICBN Art. 52
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Gladiolus natalensis Reinw. ex Hook.f.
species
Gladiolus natalensis

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asparagales
Iridaceae
Gladiolus
natalensis

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Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Gladiolus natalensis Reinw. ex Hook.f.

Corm ± 5 cm diam., ± flattened, with numerous cormils at base. Stems ± 1.5 m high. Leaves ± 3 cm wide, stiff. Flowers ± 10 cm long, ± 7 cm diam., to 10 or more in a unilateral spike, yellow, reddening from bud to fully open; outer spathe-valves ± = perianth-tube; tube ± 5 cm long, curved; upper lobes ± 5 × 3 cm, broadly obovate, obtuse, red; lower lobes slightly shorter and much narrower, yellow, broad, red zone at apex. Anthers yellow. Capsule oblong, ± ½ length of spathe-valves. Seeds broadly winged.

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Gladiolus natalensis Reinw. ex Hook.f.
Gladiolus natalensis Reinw. ex Hook. f.
Germishuizen, G.; Meyer, N.L. (2003)
Gladiolus dalenii Van Geel
Gladiolus natalensis Reinw. ex Hook.f.
Gladiolus natalensis Reinw. ex Hook. f.
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)

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1 January 2000
1 December 2014
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