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|accepted_name=Watsonia
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fig. Pl. Gard. Dict.,
|place=184, plate 276. 1758
|year=1758
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Watsonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Watsonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For William Watson, 1715–1787, British botanist
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 349, 402
|treatment_page=page 401
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, from corms. <b>Stems</b> simple or branched. <b>Leaves</b> several; blade plane, lanceolate to linear, usually coarse, fibrotic. <b>Inflorescences</b> spicate, erect, many-flowered; bracts green, often flushed with red, unequal, usually outer exceeding inner, apex acute, inner forked apically, firm to leathery. <b>Flowers</b> short-lived, odorless [rarely fragrant], zygomorphic [actinomorphic], distichous; tepals horizontal or suberect, connate into tube, orange, red, or purple [pink, rarely white], ± equal [equal]; perianth tube funnel-shaped or elongate, expanded distally into wide, horizontal upper part; stamens unilateral [symmetrical], arcuate [declinate], extended horizontally below dorsal tepal; anthers parallel [diverging]; style arching below or above filaments [central], dividing opposite to [beyond] anthers into 3 filiform branches each divided for ca. 1/2 their length, apically stigmatic. <b>Capsules</b> [globose to] oblong, wood-textured, rounded [acute or attenuate]. <b>Seeds</b> several to many, angular, 1- or 2-winged [prismatic]; seed coat light brown. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 52 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Several species of <i>Watsonia</i> are cultivated in the flora area where the winters are mild, especially in California; only <i>W. meriana</i> is truly naturalized. The following have been recorded as persisting for some years around abandoned dwellings, in cemeteries and garbage dumps, and along roads and highways: W. borbonica (Pourret) Goldblatt (both pink- and white-flowered forms), W. fourcadei J. W. Mathews & L. Bolus, and W. marginata (Linnaeus f.) Ker Gawler.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=goldblatt1989a
|text=Goldblatt, P. 1989. The genus Watsonia. A systematic monograph. Ann. Kirstenbosch Bot. Gard. 17.
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|author=Peter Goldblatt
|authority=Miller
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|parent rank=family
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|family=Iridaceae
|distribution=s Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=goldblatt1989a
|publication title=Fig. Pl. Gard. Dict.,
|publication year=1758
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|genus=Watsonia
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