Three new species of Tritoniopsis (Iridaceae: Crocoideae) from the Cape Region of South Africa | Zendy

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Three new species of <i>Tritoniopsis</i> (Iridaceae: Crocoideae) from the Cape Region of South Africa

Author(s) -

John C. Manning,

Peter Goldblatt

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

bothalia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 2311-9284

pISSN - 0006-8241

DOI - 10.4102/abc.v31i2.516

Subject(s) - cape , endemism , genus , melastomataceae , pollination , geography , ecology , biology , pollen , archaeology

Three new species of the largely Western Cape genus Tritoniopsis L.Bolus are described, bringing the number of species in the genus to 24. Tritoniopsis bicolor and T. flava are newly discovered, narrow endemics of the Bredasdorp Mountains and the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, respectively, in the southwestern Cape. Both of these are areas of high local endemism. T. toximontana, known since at least 1465 but misunderstood, is restricted to the Gifberg-Matsikamma Mountain complex of northern Western Cape. Notes on the pollination biology of the species are provided.