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IXIA (G)
Ixia, Kalossie (Le)
Family: IRIDACEAE
Ixia is a name in Greek and Latin for a plant also called CHAMELION (also meaning an inconstant or variable person), a kind of thistle yielding an acrid resin.
ixia, = name of a plant noted for its variability of colour.
Ixion**, was a Thessalian king, who ruled over the Lapiths.
ixos, = mistletoe, viscum, birdlime.
(viscous sap)
(Ox, M, PG, LS, Le)
Ixia paniculata (La)
Pypkalossie (PS)
Location: (K)
panus, = the thread wound upon the bobbin in a shuttle; a swelling, tumor; an ear of millet;
-ula, = diminutive;
panicula, = a tuft, a panicle on plants;
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
(arranged in a panicle – a loose branching of flowers)
(ld, BL, Ox)

The 2827 species, 685 genera and 186 families of plants have been compiled from the lists of the plants:

  • of the Hermanus Botanical Society compiled by Lee Burman, for the plants in the Fernkloof Nature Reserve, and the Vogelgat Private Nature Reserve, Hermanus. Location: (F).
  • of Mark Johns, Director of the Kogelberg Reserve, and of COASTEC, environmental consultants, for the plants in the Kogelberg Nature Reserve, Betty’s Bay, in the WesternCape Province, South Africa. Location: (K).
  • of Christopher Whitehouse, for the plants in the Phillipskop Mountain Reserve, Stanford, in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Location: (P).

Suggestions for improvements to the lists and comments would be welcomed.