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Index of Plant Families (5 families in this page) |
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IRIDACEAE
Juss.
( Iris Family ) | Subfamalies: Iridoideae; Isophysidoideae; Crocoideae; Nivenioideae; Patersonioideae; Geosiridoideae; Aristeoideae
Family Description: Herbaceous perennials, usually with a bulb, corm or rhizome. Leaves usually equitant, ensiform, occasionally linear. Inflorescence terminal, 1- to many-flowered. Perianth petaloid, 6-partite, radially or bilaterally symmetrical, usually with a hypanthial tube. Stamens 3, opposite the outer perianth-segments. Ovary inferior, usually 3-locular and with many ovules. Style 3-lobed, branches entire or divided, sometimes petaloid. Fruit a capsule. |  |  | |  |
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(Salisb.) N. E. Br.
Main Synonym :
Antholyza floribunda | African Flag | Kasmanti | Jan-Apr |  | Normal Profile
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Rafinesque
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Yellow-throated Crocus | Żagħfran Selvaġġ Skars | Nov-Dec |  | Detailed Profile
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(Jacquin) Klatt
Main Synonym :
Freesia corymbosa | Common Freesia | Friżja | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile
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Miller
Main Synonym :
Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus | Mediterranean Gladiolus | Ħabb Il-qamħ Kbir | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile
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Gussone
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Small Gladiolus,
Southern Gladiolus | Ħabb Il-qamħ Tal-wied | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile
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Miller
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Field Gladiolus,
Italian Gladiolus,
Cornfield Gladiolus | Ħabb Tal-qamħ Tar-raba | Mar-Apr |  | Detailed Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
Iris germanica subsp. Florentina | Florentine Iris,
Orris Root | Fjurduliż Abjad | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Stinking Iris,
Gladwyn Iris,
Beefsteak Iris | Fjurduliż Tal-Bosk,
Fjurduliż Tal-Buskett,
Fjurduliż Tad-dell | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
Iris x germanica | Garden Iris,
German Iris,
Blue Flag Iris | Fjurduliż Ikħal | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Yellow Iris,
Pale Yellow Iris,
Yellow Flag Iris | Fjurduliż Tal-ilma,
Fjurduliż Isfar | Mar-May | | Normal Profile
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Tineo
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Southern Dwarf Iris,
Dwarf Bearded Iris | Bellus | Jan-Mar |  | Detailed Profile
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Todaro
Main Synonym :
Iris pallida | Sicilian Iris | Fjurduliż Sqalli | Apr-Jun |  | Normal Profile
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Maximowicz
Main Synonym :
Iris fimbriata | Chinese Iris,
Wall Iris,
Japanese Iris | Maltese Name Not Known | Mar-May | | Normal Profile
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Spanish Iris | Fjurduliż Tal-ġonna | Mar-May |  | Normal Profile
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(Thunberg) N.E. Brown
Main Synonym :
Anometheca cruenta | African Lapeyrousia | Maltese Name Not Known | Apr-May | | Normal Profile
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(L.) Parlatore
Main Synonym :
Gynandriris sisyrinchium | Barbary Nut Iris | Fjurduliż Salvaġġ | Apr-May |  | Normal Profile
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Sebastiani & Mauri
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Sand Crocus (columnar),
Dark Veined Romulea | Żagħfran ċar,
Żagħfran żgħir,
Żagħfran Tar-Ramel | Feb-Mar |  | Normal Profile
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Bèguinot
Main Synonym :
Romulea columnae subsp. melitensis | Maltese Sand Crocus | Zagħfran Tal-blat Ta' Malta | Feb-Mar |  | Normal Profile
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Tenore
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Sand Crocus (branched) | Żagħfran Tal-blat Komuni | Feb-Mar |  | Normal Profile
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Parlatore
Main Synonym :
Romulea columnae subsp. rollii | Sand Crocus (Rollii's),
Rolli's Sand Crocus | Żagħfran Tar-Ramel Ta' Rolli | Feb-Mar |  | Normal Profile
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LILIACEAE
Juss.
( Lily Family ) | Subfamalies: Calochortoideae; Lilioideae; Medeoloideae
Family Description: Perennial herbs, often with bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tuberous roots; sometimes climbers, rarely annuals or small shrubs. Flowers usually in racemes or panicles, more rarely solitary or in cymes or umbels, regular or slightly zygomorphic, usually hermaphrodite. Perianth of two whorls, each of (2-)3(-5) usually petaloid segments, free or variously connate. Stamens usually as many as perianth-segments, free or connate. Ovary 3-locular, superior (very rarely 1-locular or semi-inferior); styles 1 or 3(-5). Fruit a loculicidal or septicidal capsule or a berry. | | | | |
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Link
Main Synonym :
Tulipa sylvestris subsp. australis | Southern Tulip,
Wild Tulip | Tulipan Selvaġġ | Mar-Apr |  | Normal Profile
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PONTEDERIACEAE
Kunth
( Water-Hyacinth Family ) | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Perennial, rhizomatous, aquatic herbs. Leaves petiolate. Inflorescence a spike or raceme, subtended by a spathe-like bract. Flowers hermaphrodite, more or less zygomorphic, usually ephemeral. Perianth-segments 6, petaloid, connate at least at the base. Stamens 3 or 6. Ovary superior, 3-locular, or 1-locular by abortion, 1- to many-seeded. Fruit a capsule, tightly invested by the persistent perianth. | | | | |
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SMILACACEAE
Vent.
( Catbrier Family )
Conservative synonym: Liliaecea | Subfamalies: nil.
Family Description: Smilacaceae is a family formerely grouped with the Liliaceae and consists of 4 genera sharing about 375 species. They are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere, with a few extending into north temperate regions. The familiy differs from the Liliaceae in its viney and 'woody' habit and in the netted venation of the leaves, although it has sometimes been classified within it. It shares the viney habit and prickles on the stems and leaves with the closley related Dioscoriaceae. The Smilacaceae also differs in that it has long, distinctive tendrils in most cases. Leaves are simple, entire and alternate or rarely opposite, often leathery. Sheathing at the leaf base may be modified into stipular tendrils. Flowers are actinomorphic and perfect or unisexual/dioecious. Inflorescence of solitary flowers in axils, or flowers in racemes, spikes or umbels. Hypogynous (rarely epigynous). Usually unisexual (the sexes on separate individuals), and with 6 greenish, whitish, yellowish or brownish tepals, 6 stamens and 1 superior pistil. Fruit is a berry. Seeds with starchless, hard endosperm. Habit is as a prickly, twining herb, shrub or woody vine that has or lacks tendrils. The roots of some species are used medicinally for the treatment of rheumatism and from another species, the stimulant China root is obtained. | | | | |
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L.
Main Synonym :
No main synonyms for this taxon | Mediterranean Smilax,
Common Smilax,
Rough Smilax | Zalza Pajżana | Sep-Nov |  | Detailed Profile
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