Tritonia flabellifolia(D.Delaroche) G.J.Lewis

WFO wfo-0000786887 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tritonia flabellifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. a Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2020-10-25 / obs. 102315885
Tritonia flabellifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. b Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102315910
Tritonia flabellifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102321911
Tritonia flabellifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 102321746
Tritonia flabellifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15985889
Tritonia flabellifolia, photographed by Klaus Wehrlin
fig. f Klaus Wehrlin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 27016812
Tritonia flabellifolia, photographed by Klaus Wehrlin
fig. g Klaus Wehrlin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 31144661
Tritonia flabellifolia, photographed by Christina
fig. h Christina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171077703

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Tritonia flabellifolia is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Tritonia flabellifolia, 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 20 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.

  • Acidanthera flabellifolia (D.Delaroche) N.E.Br.
  • Freesea flava (Aiton) Eckl.
  • Freesea secunda Eckl.
  • Gladiolus amoenus Ehrh. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Gladiolus flavus Aiton
  • Gladiolus roseus Jacq.
  • Ixia flabellifolia D.Delaroche
  • Montbretia flava (Aiton) Heynh.
  • Montbretia rosea (Jacq.) Voigt
  • Tapeinia flava (Aiton) F.Dietr.
  • Tapeinia rosea (Jacq.) F.Dietr.
  • Tritonia capensis var. major Ker Gawl.
  • Tritonia flabellifolia var. major (Ker Gawl.) M.P.de Vos
  • Tritonia flabellifolia var. thomasiae M.P.de Vos
  • Tritonia flava (Aiton) Ker Gawl.
  • Tritonia rosea (Jacq.) W.T.Aiton
  • Tritonia secunda (Eckl.) Steud.
  • Tritonixia rosea (Jacq.) Klatt
  • Waitzia flava (Aiton) Kreysig
  • Waitzia rosea (Jacq.) Heynh.

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. 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.

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