Iridaceae of Southern Africa. 2020. (Strelitzia, 42). Many line drawgs. & maps. 93 col. pls. VIII, 1159 p. 4to. Hardcover

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This is the first complete taxonomic treatment for lridaceae in southern Africa (including Botswana,, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Eswatini) since the publication of J.G. Baker's account In Flora capensls (1896). It treats a total of 1 210 species in 36 genera, classified in the four subfamilies Aristeoideae (Aristea 46 spp.), Nivenioldeae (Nivenia 11 spp., Klattia 3 spp. and Witsenia 1 sp.), Crocoideae tribe Tritoniopsideae (Tritonlopsis 23 spp.), tribe Watsonieae (Watsonia 53 spp., Pillansia 1 sp., Thereianthus 11 spp., Micranthus 7 spp., Codonorhiza 7 spp., Schizorhiza I sp., Lapeirousia 27 spp. and Afrosolen 11 spp..) and tribe Ixieae subtribes Gladiolinae (Gladiolus 169 spp.), Melasphaerullnae (Melasphaerula 1 sp.), Freesiinae (Xenoscapa 3 spp., Freesia 16 spp., Crocosmia 7 spp. and Deula 1 sp.), Hesperanthinae (Geissorhiza 104 spp. and Hesperantha 87 spp.), Tritoniinae (Bablana93 spp., Chasmanthe 3 spp., Sparraxis 16 spp., Duthiastrum 1 sp., Dierama 37 spp., Tritonia 30 spp. and Ixia 100 spp.), subtribe Radinosiphoninae (Radinosiphon 2 spp.) and Crocinae (Romulea 84spp., Afrocrocus 1 sp. and Syringodea. 7 spp.), and Iridoideae (Dietes 5 spp., Bobartia 17 spp., Ferrarla 15spp. and Moraea 209 spp.). A revised, phylogeny-based tribal and subtribai classification is presented here for Crocoideae, correlating with corm ontogeny and seed characteristics. Keys are provided to subfamilies, tribes and genera (and in the case of larger genera to subgenera or sections) as well as to species and infraspececific taxa. Each species is fully described with complete nomenclature, geographic range and a distribution map. Genera are illustrated with line drawings, and nearly half of the species are illustrated with colour photographs. Four new species are described, Bobartia vlokii Goldblatt & J.C.Manning, Geissorhiza adriaanii Goldblatt & J.C.Manning, Hesperantha mtamvunae Goldblatt & J.C.Manning and Romulea fuscomontana Goldblatt & J.C.Manning, and a number of names are synonymised.