Tritonia undulata(Burm.f.) Baker

WFO wfo-0000787046 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tritonia undulata, photographed by linkie
fig. a linkie, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-25 / obs. 171884078
Tritonia undulata, photographed by linkie
fig. b linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171883955
Tritonia undulata, photographed by Corli du Toit Smith
fig. c Corli du Toit Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168664227
Tritonia undulata, photographed by linkie
fig. d linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177366485
Tritonia undulata, photographed by linkie
fig. e linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165738661
Tritonia undulata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 106578723
Tritonia undulata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 106579106
Tritonia undulata, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 106577729

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Tritonia undulata is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Tritonia undulata, 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 14 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 crispa (L.f.) Pax
  • Dichone crispa (L.f.) C.Lawson
  • Freesea crispa (L.f.) Eckl.
  • Gladiolus crispus L.f.
  • Gladiolus pectinatus Sol. ex Baker
  • Ixia crispa L.f.
  • Ixia undulata Burm.f.
  • Montbretia crispa (L.f.) Voigt
  • Tapeinia crispa (L.f.) F.Dietr.
  • Tritonia crispa (L.f.) Ker Gawl.
  • Tritonia crispa var. grandiflora Baker
  • Tritonia crispa var. parviflora Baker
  • Tritonixia undulata (Burm.f.) Klatt
  • Waitzia crispa (L.f.) 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. 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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