Watsonia Mill.
Distribution
Native to:
Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern Provinces, Swaziland
Introduced into:
Argentina Northeast, Burundi, California, Great Britain, Hawaii, Madeira, Mauritius, New South Wales, Portugal, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, South Australia, Spain, St.Helena, Tasmania, Tristan da Cunha, Victoria, Western Australia
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Lemonia Pers. in Syn. Pl. 1: 44 (1805)
- Lomenia Pourr. in Mém. Acad. Sci. Toulouse 3: 74 (1788)
- Meriana Trew in Pl. Select.: t. 40 (1754)
- Neuberia Eckl. in Topogr. Verz. Pflanzensamml. Ecklon: 37 (1827), nom. nud.
Accepted Species
- Watsonia aletroides (Burm.f.) Ker Gawl.
- Watsonia amabilis Goldblatt
- Watsonia amatolae Goldblatt
- Watsonia angusta Ker Gawl.
- Watsonia bachmannii L.Bolus
- Watsonia bella N.E.Br. ex Goldblatt
- Watsonia borbonica (Pourr.) Goldblatt
- Watsonia canaliculata Goldblatt
- Watsonia coccinea (Herb. ex Baker) Baker
- Watsonia confusa Goldblatt
- Watsonia densiflora Baker
- Watsonia distans L.Bolus
- Watsonia dubia Eckl. ex Klatt
- Watsonia elsiae Goldblatt
- Watsonia emiliae L.Bolus
- Watsonia fergusoniae L.Bolus
- Watsonia fourcadei J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
- Watsonia galpinii L.Bolus
- Watsonia gladioloides Schltr.
- Watsonia humilis Mill.
- Watsonia hysterantha J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
- Watsonia inclinata Goldblatt
- Watsonia knysnana L.Bolus
- Watsonia laccata (Jacq.) Ker Gawl.
- Watsonia latifolia N.E.Br. ex Oberm.
- Watsonia lepida N.E.Br.
- Watsonia × longifolia J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
- Watsonia marginata (L.f.) Ker Gawl.
- Watsonia marlothii L.Bolus
- Watsonia meriana (L.) Mill.
- Watsonia minima Goldblatt
- Watsonia mtamvunae Goldblatt
- Watsonia occulta L.Bolus
- Watsonia paucifolia Goldblatt
- Watsonia pillansii L.Bolus
- Watsonia pondoensis Goldblatt
- Watsonia pulchra N.E.Br. ex Goldblatt
- Watsonia rogersii L.Bolus
- Watsonia rourkei Goldblatt
- Watsonia schlechteri L.Bolus
- Watsonia spectabilis Schinz
- Watsonia stenosiphon L.Bolus
- Watsonia stokoei L.Bolus
- Watsonia strictiflora Ker Gawl.
- Watsonia strubeniae L.Bolus
- Watsonia tabularis J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
- Watsonia transvaalensis Baker
- Watsonia vanderspuyae L.Bolus
- Watsonia versfeldii J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
- Watsonia vicschuettei C.J.Potg. & I.M.Johnson
- Watsonia watsonioides (Baker) Oberm.
- Watsonia wilmaniae J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus
- Watsonia wilmsii L.Bolus
- Watsonia zeyheri L.Bolus
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Cooke, D.A. (1986). Flora of Australia 46: i-xii, 1-247. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
- Geerinck, D (2005). Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaïre - Rwanda - Burundi) Iridaceae: 1-102. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Meise.
- Goldblatt, P. (1989). The Genus Watsonia: A Systematic Monograph: i-x, 1-148. National Botanic Gardens, Cape, South Africa.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
-
Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
-
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0