Sparaxis grandiflora(D.Delaroche) Ker Gawl.

fragrant wandflower

WFO wfo-0000786103 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sparaxis grandiflora, photographed by Tom Lloyd Evans
fig. a Tom Lloyd Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 1986-09-12 / obs. 62717426
Sparaxis grandiflora, photographed by Tom Lloyd Evans
fig. b Tom Lloyd Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 114815240
Sparaxis grandiflora, photographed by Noeleen du Toit
fig. c Noeleen du Toit, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 50103581
Sparaxis grandiflora, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15198317
Sparaxis grandiflora, photographed by Sean Privett
fig. e Sean Privett, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 95603083
Sparaxis grandiflora, photographed by Stefano Menchetti
fig. f Stefano Menchetti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3146766
Sparaxis grandiflora, photographed by Tom Lloyd Evans
fig. g Tom Lloyd Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 131672754
Sparaxis grandiflora, photographed by Tom Lloyd Evans
fig. h Tom Lloyd Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 107355197

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Sparaxis grandiflora is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Sparaxis grandiflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 26 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Belamcanda aristata Moench
  • Belamcanda semiflexuosa Moench
  • Ixia aristata Aiton
  • Ixia aristata var. atropurpurea Andrews
  • Ixia fimbriata Lam.
  • Ixia grandiflora D.Delaroche
  • Ixia holosericea Jacq.
  • Ixia lacera L. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Ixia liliago Desf. ex Redouté
  • Ixia monanthos D.Delaroche
  • Ixia sparsa Mill.
  • Ixia uniflora L.
  • Sparaxis atropurpurea Klatt
  • Sparaxis bulbifera var. violacea Baker sensu Baker
  • Sparaxis cana Eckl.
  • Sparaxis fimbriata (Lam.) Ker Gawl.
  • Sparaxis grandiflora var. liliago (Desf. ex Redouté) Ker Gawl.
  • Sparaxis grandiflora var. stellaris (D.Don) Baker
  • Sparaxis grandiflora var. striata Sweet
  • Sparaxis lacera Ker Gawl.
  • Sparaxis liliago (Desf. ex Redouté) Sweet
  • Sparaxis lutea Eckl.
  • Sparaxis meleagris Eckl.
  • Sparaxis monanthos (D.Delaroche) N.E.Br.

and 2 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.