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The genus Ixia is in the family Iridaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ixia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Ixia acaulis Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia amethystina J.C.Manning & Goldblatt	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia atrandra Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia aurea J.C.Manning & Goldblatt	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia brevituba G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia brunneobractea G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia campanulata Houtt.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia capillaris L.f.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia cochlearis G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia collina Goldblatt & Snijman	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia contorta Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia curta Andrews	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia curvata G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia divaricata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia dubia Vent.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia erubescens Goldblatt	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia esterhuyseniae M.P.de Vos	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia flexuosa L.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia fucata Ker Gawl.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia gloriosa G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia lacerata Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia latifolia D.Delaroche	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia leipoldtii G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia longituba N.E.Br.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia lutea Eckl.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia maculata L.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia marginifolia G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia metelerkampiae L.Bolus	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia micrandra Baker	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia monadelpha D.Delaroche	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia mostertii M.P.de Vos	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia namaquana L.Bolus	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia odorata Ker Gawl.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia orientalis L.Bolus	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia oxalidiflora Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia paniculata D.Delaroche	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia patens Aiton	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia pauciflora G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia paucifolia G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia polystachya L.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia pumilio Goldblatt & Snijman	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia purpureorosea G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia rapunculoides Delile	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia rivulicola Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia robusta (G.J.Lewis) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia rouxii G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia scillaris L.	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia sobolifera Goldblatt & J.C.Manning	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia splendida G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia stohriae L.Bolus	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia stolonifera G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia stricta (Eckl. ex Klatt) G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia superba J.C.Manning & Goldblatt	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia tenuifolia Vahl	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia thomasiae Goldblatt	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia trifolia G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia trinervata (Baker) G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia vanzijliae L.Bolus	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia versicolor G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia vinacea G.J.Lewis	Accepted		iPlants
Ixia viridiflora Lam.	Accepted		iPlants

Statistics

The Plant List includes 361 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ixia. Of these 61 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 63 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ixia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 361 species names for the genus Ixia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	61	16.9%
◕	Synonym	269	74.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	31	8.6%

All names

The status of the 424 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ixia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	76	17.9%
◕	Synonym	316	74.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	32	7.5%

Of these names,

• 11 are recorded as invalid
• 56 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 361 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ixia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	61	261	0	0	322	89.2%
	Medium confidence	0	5	0	0	5	1.4%
	Low confidence	0	3	0	31	34	9.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Ixia, are as follows: