Ixia polystachia L.
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iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.Cultivation
Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the family Iridaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tuberous geophyte”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the family Iridaceae in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tuberous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 5296939 (Ixia serotina Salisb., 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
Photographs
Related
Other Ixia 6 in the reference
Ixia dubia Yellow Kalossie Photo: CC BY, Caroline Voget
Ixia maculata Spotted African cornlily Photo: CC BY, Arnim Littek
Ixia paniculata Tubular corn-lily Photo: CC BY-SA, James Deacon
Ixia scillaris Agretjie Kalossie Photo: CC BY, Ren Hoekstra
Ixia stricta Summer Kalossie Photo: CC BY-SA, Dave U
Ixia viridiflora Azure Kalossie Photo: CC BY, linkie Names & registers
Also known as Ixia maculata var. caesia; Ixia elegans; Ixia viridiflora var. caesia; Ixia erecta; Ixia aristata var. elegans and 5 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Ixia polystachia L. (plant_name_id 322868), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 5296939, Ixia serotina Salisb. (Kew's file holds it as Ixia serotina Salisb. (illegitimate under Ixia polystachia L.)): GBIF occurrence search APIclimate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the rangewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 439536-1, POWO 439536-1wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Ixia polystachya is under a name that is neither this species' nor one of its older namesinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.