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|accepted_name=Crocosmia
|accepted_authority=Planchon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Serres Jard. Eur.
|place=7: 161. 1851
|year=1851
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Curtonus
|authority=N. E. Brown
|rank=genus
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|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Crocosmia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Crocosmia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek krokos, crocus, and osme, scent, because the dried flowers boiled in water smell like the spice saffron obtained from that plant
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 349
|treatment_page=page 402
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, from corms.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem architecture;stem architecture;stem arrangement"><b>Stems </b>usually branched, branching often strongly divaricate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf quantity;leaf shape"><b>Leaves </b>several, forming fan;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape">blade plane [or plicate], ensiform.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;axis orientation;axis architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>spicate, axes inclined to ± horizontal, 4–8-flowered [–many-flowered];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="bract coloration;bract size;inner bract architecture or shape;inner bract texture;inner bract texture">bracts orange to reddish [green], unequal, outer bract usually exceeding inner, inner bifid, firm textured.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower odor;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>odorless, zygomorphic [actinomorphic];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="tepal fusion;tepal coloration;tepal size;outer tepal size;dorsal tepal size">tepals connate into tube, orange to red, subequal [unequal], outer tepals slightly larger than inner with dorsal largest [dorsal tepal much larger than others];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="stamen architecture or orientation or position">stamens unilateral;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="perianth-tube shape">perianth-tube funnel-shaped [nearly cylindric];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="anther arrangement">anthers parallel [radially disposed];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="style orientation;style shape;branch quantity;branch shape">style arching over filaments [central], dividing into 3 filiform branches, usually notched apically [undivided].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="capsule shape;capsule shape;capsule pubescence or texture"><b>Capsules </b>globose, 3-lobed, cartilaginous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>2–4 per locule, globose [compressed];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="">seed-coats hard, shiny or matte.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seed-coat texture;seed-coat reflectance;seed-coat reflectance;x chromosome quantity">x = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=sub-Saharan Africa;Madagascar
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 9 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>In addition to Crocosmia ×crocosmiiflora, now naturalized, C. paniculata (Klatt) Goldblatt and C. masonorum (L. Bolus) N. E. Brown are grown in gardens. They may readily be distinguished by their broad, plicate leaves.</p><!--
--><p>An artificial hybrid between two southern African species, Crocosmia aurea (Pappe ex Hooker f.) Planchon and C. pottsii (Macnab ex Baker) N. E. Brown, is now widely naturalized in the Neotropics, Madagascar, and locally in the Pacific Islands.</p>
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name=Crocosmia
|author=Peter Goldblatt
|authority=Planchon
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Curtonus
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|distribution=sub-Saharan Africa;Madagascar
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Serres Jard. Eur.
|publication year=1851
|special status=
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|genus=Crocosmia
|anther arrangement=parallel
|axis architecture=4-8-flowered
|axis orientation=inclined;more or less horizontal
|blade shape=ensiform;plane
|bract coloration=orange;reddish
|bract size=unequal
|branch quantity=3
|branch shape=filiform
|capsule pubescence or texture=cartilaginous
|capsule shape=3-lobed;globose
|dorsal tepal size=largest
|flower architecture=zygomorphic
|flower odor=odorless
|inflorescence architecture=spicate
|inner bract architecture or shape=bifid
|inner bract texture=textured;firm
|leaf quantity=several
|leaf shape=fan
|outer tepal size=slightly larger
|perianth-tube shape=funnel--shaped
|seed quantity=2;4
|seed shape=globose
|seed-coat reflectance=matte;shiny
|seed-coat texture=hard
|stamen architecture or orientation or position=unilateral
|stem architecture=branching;branched
|stem arrangement=divaricate
|style orientation=arching
|style shape=notched
|tepal coloration=orange;red
|tepal fusion=connate
|tepal size=subequal
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=11
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