Watsonia distans L.Bolus (1926:51)
Lax watsonia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Watsonia pauciflora L.Bolus in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 328 (1932)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in: 1997 (Goldblatt et al., 2007)
Still listed as Extinct by (Humphreys et al., 2019).
Distribution & Habitat
Cape Province, South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Germishuizen, G. and Meyer, N. L. (eds.). (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Goldblatt, P. (1989). The Genus Watsonia: A Systematic Monograph: i-x, 1-148. National Botanic Gardens, Cape, South Africa.
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J. C. (2000). Cape Plants: A conspectus of the Cape Flora of South Africa. Strelitzia 9. National Botanical Institute, Cape Town.
Goldblatt, P. and Manning, J. C. (2020). Iridaceae of southern Africa. Strelitzia 42: 1-1159. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Goldblatt, P., Manning, J. C., Raimondo, D. and Turner, R. C. (2007). Watsonia distans L.Bolus. National Assessment: Red List of South African Plants version. Accessed on 2025/07/29.
Hall, A. V., De Winter, M., De Winter, B. and Van Oosterhout, S. A. M. (1980). Threatened plants of southern Africa. South African National Scienctific Programmes Report 45. CSIR, Pretoria.
Hilton-Taylor, Craig (ed.). (1996). Red data list of Southern African plants: 1-117. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
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Raimondo, D., von Staden, L., Foden, W., Victor, J. E., Helme, N. A., Turner, R. C., Kamundi, D. A. and Manyama, P. A. (2009). Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
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