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Babiana foliosa G.J.Lewis

Mystery Bobbejaantjie, Riviersonderend Bobbejaantjie

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Bulb, tuber or caudex

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Summary

Babiana foliosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. The plants may be up to 10 cm (3.9 in) high and appear from an underground corm after the summer. It has star-symmetrical mauve flowers that are each supported by 2 entirely green bracts of 2–3 cm (0.79–1.18 in) with a transparent margin, the inner bract is split to the base. It has relatively many, lance-shaped, pleated, hairy leaves. More on Wikipedia ›

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About the genus · Babiana

Babiana is a genus of geophytes in the family Iridaceae with 93 recognized species as of March 2022. The leaves consist of a stalk and a blade that are at an angle to each other. The leaf blades are entire, laterally flattened and pleated, and often hairy. More on Wikipedia ›

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Family

Iridaceae

Described by

G.J.Lewis

Native to

not verified

Wild records

2 in range· 2 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Babiana, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeDistribution source did not answer.

Extinct inCape Provinces· recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions

Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 2 openly licensed records untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Babiana foliosa, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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