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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Freesia
|accepted_authority=Ecklon ex Klatt
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=34: 672. 1866
|year=1866
}}
|common_names=Freesia
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Anomatheca
|authority=Ker Gawler
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Freesia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Freesia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for F. H. T. Freese, d. 1876, student of C. F. Ecklon, 1795–1868, who first used the name (as Freesea), although in a different sense
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 349
|treatment_page=page 405
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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="corm architecture;corm shape;corm diameter"><b>Corms </b>tunicate, conic, ca. 10 mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="tunic texture">tunics fibrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="fiber width;fiber coloration;fiber architecture or coloration or relief">fibers fine, pale, reticulate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="stem architecture;stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>simple or branched.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="leaf quantity;leaf growth form or orientation"><b>Leaves </b>several, sometimes prostrate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape">blade plane, lanceolate [ensiform or oblong].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence architecture;inflorescence shape;inflorescence orientation;inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>spicate, secund, usually strongly flexed basally, ± horizontal, several–many-flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="bract coloration;bract texture;bract texture">bract green [pale straw colored], coriaceous or membranous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="flower odor;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>often strongly fragrant, zygomorphic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="tepal fusion;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal size;outer whorl size">tepals connate into tube, mostly white or yellow, sometimes pink or red, subequal, outer whorl slightly larger than inner;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="perianth-tube shape;perianth-tube shape;perianth-tube height or length or size;perianth-tube length or size;perianth-tube size;perianth-tube shape;tube size or length">perianth-tube cylindric or funnel-shaped, short or long proximally, abruptly expanded into short to long tube or flared distally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="stamen arrangement;stamen architecture or orientation or position">stamens asymmetrically disposed, unilateral;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="anther arrangement">anthers usually parallel;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style orientation;branch quantity;branch shape">style arching over filaments, dividing into 3 filiform branches.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="capsule shape;capsule relief"><b>Capsules </b>irregularly globose, usually rugose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>several per locule, globose, without wings;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="">seed-coat light to dark-brown, hard, shiny.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="seed-coat coloration;seed-coat texture;seed-coat reflectance;x chromosome quantity">x = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=South Africa
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 15 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Critical phylogenetic study has shown Freesia to be nested in Anomatheca, and the two genera have been united.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perianth hypocrateriform; tepals pink to red with dark red markings on lower 3 tepals; tube cylindric throughout.
|[[Freesia laxa|Freesia laxa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perianth funnel-shaped; tepals predominantly white, sometimes with yellow markings on lower tepals, tepals and tube lightly flushed with purple abaxially; distal part of tube longer than basal part, very gradually flared.
|[[Freesia alba|Freesia alba]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Freesia
|author=Peter Goldblatt
|authority=Ecklon ex Klatt
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Anomatheca
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|distribution=South Africa
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1866
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_833.xml
|genus=Freesia
|anther arrangement=parallel
|blade shape=lanceolate;plane
|bract coloration=green
|bract texture=membranous;coriaceous
|branch quantity=3
|branch shape=filiform
|capsule relief=rugose
|capsule shape=globose
|corm architecture=tunicate
|corm diameter=10
|corm shape=conic
|fiber architecture or coloration or relief=reticulate
|fiber coloration=pale
|fiber width=fine
|flower architecture=zygomorphic
|flower odor=fragrant
|inflorescence architecture=several-many-flowered;secund;spicate
|inflorescence orientation=horizontal
|inflorescence shape=flexed
|leaf growth form or orientation=prostrate
|leaf quantity=several
|outer whorl size=slightly larger
|perianth-tube height or length or size=short
|perianth-tube length or size=long
|perianth-tube shape=flared;funnel--shaped;cylindric
|perianth-tube size=expanded
|seed quantity=several
|seed shape=globose
|seed-coat coloration=light;dark-brown
|seed-coat reflectance=shiny
|seed-coat texture=hard
|stamen architecture or orientation or position=unilateral
|stamen arrangement=disposed
|stem architecture=branched;simple
|style orientation=arching
|tepal coloration=red;pink;yellow;white
|tepal fusion=connate
|tepal size=subequal
|tube size or length=short to long
|tunic texture=fibrous
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=11
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