Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-  Plate No. 541

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-COMMON_NAMES- Velvet-flowered Ixia
-GENUS- Ixia
-SPECIES- Ixia grandiflora
-CLASS- Triandria
-ORDER- Monogynia
-AUTHORITY- Gawler

-MODERN_GENUS- Sparaxis
-MODERN_SPECIES- Sparaxis fragrens
-MODERN_FAMILY- Iridaceae

-PLANT_TYPE- perennial
-COLOR- varies with violet, white, bluish, purple, striped, or white on 
        the inside and purple outside with a star at the base.
-SEASON- May
-NATIVE_REGION- 

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 15
-PUB_DATE- 1801
-REISSUED-  
-EDITOR- John Sims
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0413 IMG0035.PCD