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|accepted_name=Watsonia
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fig. Pl. Gard. Dict.,
|place=184, plate 276. 1758
|year=1758
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Watsonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Watsonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For William Watson, 1715–1787, British botanist
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 349, 402
|treatment_page=page 401
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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"><b>Stems </b>simple or branched.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf quantity"><b>Leaves </b>several;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade relief;blade architecture">blade plane, lanceolate to linear, usually coarse, fibrotic.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence orientation;inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>spicate, erect, many-flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="bract coloration;bract coloration;bract size;bract position;bract position relational;bract position;apex shape;inner apex shape;inner apex texture">bracts green, often flushed with red, unequal, usually outer exceeding inner, apex acute, inner forked apically, firm to leathery.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower duration;flower odor;flower architecture;flower arrangement"><b>Flowers </b>short-lived, odorless [rarely fragrant], zygomorphic [actinomorphic], distichous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="tepal orientation;tepal orientation;tepal fusion;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal variability">tepals horizontal or suberect, connate into tube, orange, red, or purple [pink, rarely white], ± equal [equal];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="perianth-tube shape;perianth-tube shape;perianth-tube size;upper part width;upper part orientation">perianth-tube funnel-shaped or elongate, expanded distally into wide, horizontal upper part;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stamen architecture or orientation or position;stamen course or shape;stamen size;tepal position">stamens unilateral [symmetrical], arcuate [declinate], extended horizontally below dorsal tepal;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="anther arrangement">anthers parallel [diverging];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="style orientation;style structure in adjective form;branch quantity;branch shape;branch length">style arching below or above filaments [central], dividing opposite to [beyond] anthers into 3 filiform branches each divided for ca. 1/2 their length, apically stigmatic.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="capsule shape;capsule texture;capsule shape"><b>Capsules </b>[globose to] oblong, wood-textured, rounded [acute or attenuate].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="seed quantity;seed arrangement or shape;seed architecture;seed architecture"><b>Seeds </b>several to many, angular, 1-winged or 2-winged [prismatic];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="">seed-coat light-brown.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seed-coat coloration;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Africa
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 52 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Several species of Watsonia are cultivated in the flora area where the winters are mild, especially in California; only W. meriana is truly naturalized. The following have been recorded as persisting for some years around abandoned dwellings, in cemeteries and garbage dumps, and along roads and highways: W. borbonica (Pourret) Goldblatt (both pink- and white-flowered forms), W. fourcadei J. W. Mathews & L. Bolus, and W. marginata (Linnaeus f.) Ker Gawler.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Watsonia
|author=Peter Goldblatt
|authority=Miller
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|distribution=s Africa
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fig. Pl. Gard. Dict.,
|publication year=1758
|special status=
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|genus=Watsonia
|anther arrangement=parallel
|apex shape=acute
|blade architecture=fibrotic
|blade relief=coarse
|blade shape=lanceolate;linear
|bract coloration=flushed with red;green
|bract position=inner;outer
|bract position relational=exceeding
|bract size=unequal
|branch length=divided
|branch quantity=3
|branch shape=filiform
|capsule shape=rounded;oblong
|capsule texture=wood-textured
|flower architecture=zygomorphic
|flower arrangement=distichous
|flower duration=short-lived
|flower odor=odorless
|inflorescence architecture=many-flowered;spicate
|inflorescence orientation=erect
|inner apex shape=forked
|inner apex texture=firm;leathery
|leaf quantity=several
|perianth-tube shape=elongate;funnel--shaped
|perianth-tube size=expanded
|seed architecture=2-winged;1-winged
|seed arrangement or shape=angular
|seed quantity=several;many
|seed-coat coloration=light-brown
|stamen architecture or orientation or position=unilateral
|stamen course or shape=arcuate
|stamen size=extended
|stem architecture=branched;simple
|style orientation=arching
|style structure in adjective form=stigmatic
|tepal coloration=purple;red;purple;red;orange
|tepal fusion=connate
|tepal orientation=suberect;horizontal
|tepal position=dorsal
|tepal variability=equal
|upper part orientation=horizontal
|upper part width=wide
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=9
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