Patersonia
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Read about Patersonia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Patersonia (named for William Paterson, an English traveler). Iridaceae. Perennial herbs with short creeping rhizomes and rigid linear lvs. grouped in a distichous basal rosette: perianth-tube elongated; outer segms. obovate-cuneate, spreading; inner minute, erect: ovary clavate, 3-celled; ovules many, superposed; seeds angled by pressure.—About 19 species, all natives of Austral. P. occidentalis, R. Br. (P. sapphirina, Lindl.). Sts. very short: lvs. rigid, longest often over 1 ft.: scapes longer or shorter than lvs., dilated and striate under the spike; outer bracts 1 1/2 in. long or more, prominently or rather obscurely keeled, inner bracts membranaceous, sometimes pubescent on the keel: fls. usually numerous; perianth-tube more or less villous; outer segms. often fully 1 in. long, broad and very obtuse, rich blue; inner segms. minute, ovate or lanceolate; style articulate near the base of the anthers. H.U. 1, p. 324. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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