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Witsenia (named after Nicholas Witsen, Dutch patron of botany in first half of 18th century). Iridaceae. An ornamental greenhouse shrub with erect ensiform lvs. which are equitant; subsessile fls. with a cylindrical tubed perianth, which has erect connivent lobes and a 3-celled ovary which becomes a shiny leathery caps. Only one species from S. Afr., W. Maura, Thunb., which is not in cult. B.R. 5. P.M. 8: 221. The plant known in horticulture as W. corymbosa, Ker, is more correctly named Nivenia corymbosa, Baker. St. tall, woody at base, branched, compressed, acutely angled: lvs. erect, rather rigid, ensiform and equitant, upper ones smaller: fls. 1 (or 2?) to a spathe, subsessile; perianth purplish blue, tube elongated, cylindrical, lobes erect, connivent, outer ones rather thick, tomentose outside, inner ones shorter; spathes usually 2 to an axil. S. Afr. G. 32:739. Gn. 72, p. 375.
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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Witsenia (named after Nicholas Witsen, Dutch patron of botany in first half of 18th century). Iridaceae. An ornamental greenhouse shrub with erect ensiform lvs. which are equitant; subsessile fls. with a cylindrical tubed perianth, which has erect connivent lobes and a 3-celled ovary which becomes a shiny leathery caps. Only one species from S. Afr., W. Maura, Thunb., which is not in cult. B.R. 5. P.M. 8: 221. The plant known in horticulture as W. corymbosa, Ker, is more correctly named Nivenia corymbosa, Baker. St. tall, woody at base, branched, compressed, acutely angled: lvs. erect, rather rigid, ensiform and equitant, upper ones smaller: fls. 1 (or 2?) to a spathe, subsessile; perianth purplish blue, tube elongated, cylindrical, lobes erect, connivent, outer ones rather thick, tomentose outside, inner ones shorter; spathes usually 2 to an axil. S. Afr. G. 32:739. Gn. 72, p. 375.
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
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==Gallery==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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