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Gladiolus murielae

Species of flowering plant

Gladiolus murielae
Summary

Species of flowering plant

  • Acidanthera murielae (Kelway) Hoog, Gard.
  • Acidanthera bicolor Hochst.
  • Ixia quartiniana A.Rich.
  • Sphaerospora gigantea Klatt
  • Gladiolus callianthus Marais

Gladiolus murielae is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae, native to eastern Africa, from Ethiopia to Malawi. peacock gladiolus, and peacock orchid. It was formerly placed in the genus Acidanthera.

It is a cormous perennial growing to 70 - tall, with linear leaves and in late summer, numerous fragrant white flowers with a maroon (occasionally orange) blotch in the throat, on slender nodding stems. Widely cultivated, it is a common subject in western and southern European gardens, where the corms are lifted every year and stored in frost-free conditions.

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Taxonomy

Flower close-up

The species was first described as Acidanthera bicolor by Christian Hochstetter in 1844. In 1973, Wessel Marais included the genus Acidanthera in Gladiolus. As the name Gladiolus bicolor had already been published by John Gilbert Baker in 1877 for a different species of Gladiolus, Marais needed another name. He chose to call the species Gladiolus callianthus. Marais was apparently unaware that James Kelway had already published the name Gladiolus murielae in 1932, so that the name "G. callianthus" was superfluous. The epithet murielae honours Muriel Erskine; her husband had collected in Ethiopia the specimen on which Kelway based the name.

The species is often still offered for sale under the name Acidanthera bicolor, sometimes with murielae added as an infraspecific name, or even as the cultivar name 'Murielae'.

References

References

  1. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]].
  2. Evans, Erv. "Acidanthera bicolor, Gladiolus callianthus; Abyssinian, Fragrant gladiolus, Sword lily". [[NC State University]].
  3. "Gardening Help: ''Gladiolus murielae''". Missouri Botanical Garden.
  4. (2008). "RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants". Dorling Kindersley.
  5. "''Gladiolus murielae'' AGM". Royal Horticultural Society.
  6. (July 2017). "AGM Plants - Ornamental". Royal Horticultural Society.
  7. La Croix, Isobyl. (2012). "A selection of tropical ''Gladiolus''". The Plantsman.
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