Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 458

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-COMMON_NAMES- Grass-leaved Aristea
-GENUS- Aristea
-SPECIES- Aristea cyanea
-CLASS- Triandria
-ORDER- Monogynia
-AUTHORITY- Aiton

-MODERN_GENUS- Aristea
-MODERN_SPECIES- Aristea african
-MODERN_FAMILY- Iridacea

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- bright blue, rarely white
-SEASON- late winter-summer
-NATIVE_REGION- S Africa
-ZONE- 9

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 13
-PUB_DATE- 1799
-REISSUED- __
-EDITOR- William Curtis
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0414 IMG0074.PCD
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