Tritonia deusta(Aiton) Ker Gawl.

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WFO wfo-0000786883 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Tritonia deusta, photographed by linkie
fig. a linkie, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-10-26 / obs. 55234248
Tritonia deusta, photographed by linkie
fig. b linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55234264
Tritonia deusta, photographed by linkie
fig. c linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 55234288

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Tritonia deusta is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Tritonia deusta, 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 24 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.

  • Crocosmia deusta (Aiton) Planch.
  • Crocosmia miniata (Jacq.) Planch.
  • Ixia aurantiaca (Eckl.) Czerw.
  • Ixia crocata var. nigromaculata Andrews
  • Ixia deusta Aiton
  • Ixia gibba Salisb.
  • Ixia miniata Jacq.
  • Ixia miniata var. nigromaculata (Andrews) Redouté
  • Montbretia deusta (Aiton) Endl.
  • Montbretia miniata (Jacq.) Voigt
  • Tapeinia deusta (Aiton) F.Dietr.
  • Tapeinia miniata (Jacq.) F.Dietr.
  • Tritonia aurantiaca Eckl.
  • Tritonia coccinea Eckl.
  • Tritonia crocata var. aurantiaca (Eckl.) Baker
  • Tritonia crocata var. coccinea (Eckl.) Baker
  • Tritonia crocata var. miniata (Jacq.) Baker
  • Tritonia maculata Dehnh.
  • Tritonia miniata (Jacq.) Ker Gawl.
  • Tritonia tardiflora Dehnh.
  • Tritonixia deusta (Aiton) Klatt
  • Tritonixia miniata (Jacq.) Klatt
  • Waitzia deusta (Aiton) Kreysig
  • Waitzia miniata (Jacq.) Kreysig

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.