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-PLATE-  Plate No. 381
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-COMMON_NAMES- Three-coloured Ixia
-GENUS- Ixia
-SPECIES- Ixia tricolor
-CLASS- Triandria
-ORDER- Monogynia
-AUTHORITY- __

-MODERN_GENUS- Sparaxis
-MODERN_SPECIES- Sparaxis tricolor
-MODERN_FAMILY- Iridaceae

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- inner petal yellow, mid-petal arrow-shaped dark purple, ending in bright orange
-SEASON- protect from frost
-NATIVE_REGION- probably Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 11
-PUB_DATE- 1797
-REISSUED-  
-EDITOR- William Curtis
-ARTIST- S. Edwards
-NALPCD- Disc 1951 IMG0012.PCD