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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements4 literature sources37 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF760 records
01Narrative
Ixia maculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae known by the common name spotted African corn lily. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa, but it is grown widely as an ornamental plant. It can also be found growing wild as an introduced species in several areas, including Western Australia.FloraBase: Flora of Western Australia This perennial flower grows 20 to 70 centimeters tall with an erect, unbranched stem. There are a few twisting basal leaves up to 35 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a dense, showy spike of up to 12 flowers, usually orange to yellow in color, sometimes with areas of purple or red and often with spots; the coloration in garden plants varies due to breeding.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy92% within 1 km
≤100 m 310≤1 km 56≤10 km 24>10 km 6
396 georeferenced · 127 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor523
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy54% within 1 km
≤100 m 34≤1 km 60≤10 km 78>10 km 3
175 georeferenced · 59 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence234
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 3 records without
Open the mapnot free-living3
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions20 of 26 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
40
Adelaide, AU
36
Kensington, AU
36
Auckland, NZ
25
Canberra, AU
20
Mount Annan, AU
15
Hobart, AU
14
Rotorua, NZ
9
Christchurch, NZ
8
Cape Town, ZA
8
Brisbane, AU
3
BGPAlocation not on record
2
Wellington, NZ
2
Arcata, US
2
CICYTEXlocation not on record
2
Armidale, AU
2
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
1
Riverside, US
1
Kew, GB
1
MSB-3054location not on record
1
Dresden, DE
1
Xiamen, CN
1
Kagoshima, JP
1
Universität Göttingenlocation not on record
1
Barcelona, ES
1
Claremont, US
1
26 institutions · 234 of 234 vouchered records shown
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
