Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Crocosmia ×crocosmiiflora Chasmanthe floribunda Sparaxis tricolor	Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Herbs, perennial, from corms. Stems simple or branched. Leaves several; blade plane, ensiform. Inflorescences spicate, axes usually lightly flexed, many-flowered; bracts green or purplish, ± equal, coriaceous. Flowers unscented, zygomorphic; tepals connate into tube, orange to scarlet (rarely yellow), unequal, dorsal tepal horizontal, more than 2 times others, other tepals spreading to reflexed; perianth-tube slender, cylindric proximally, abruptly expanded, longer, wider, horizontal distally; stamens unilateral, extended horizontally below dorsal tepal; anthers parallel; style arching over filaments, branching opposite to or beyond anthers; branches 3, filiform, shallowly notched apically. Capsules irregularly globose, cartilaginous. Seeds 2–4 per locule, globose; seed-coat bright orange, sometimes somewhat fleshy. x = 10.

Distribution

Introduced; South Africa

Discussion

Species 3 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Chasmanthe floribunda

"wider" is not a number.