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Internal ID UUID644011bb31779792368897
Scientific name Xyris capensis
Authority Thunb.
First published in Prodr. Pl. Cap. : 12 (1794)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Xyris capensis var. angolensis Malme Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 307. 1912
Xyris capensis var. nilagiriensis (Steud.) Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Afrika 154. 1892
Xyris capensis f. nilagiriensis (Steud.) Nilsson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 48: 155 1891
Xyris capensis var. schoenoides (Mart.) Nilsson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 24(14): 41 1892
Xyris capensis f. schoenoides (Mart.) Nilsson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 48: 155 1891
Xyris capensis f. semifuscata (Bojer ex Baker) Nilsson Öfvers. Kongl. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 48: 154 1891
Xyris nilagarensis Steud. ex Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 6: 365 (1892)
Xyris subrubella Malme ex Hutch. & Dalziel Fl. W. Trop. Afr. 2: 322 (1936)

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Language Common/alternative name
English cape yellow-eyed grass
English common xyris
ss umuzi
st hloho-tsa-makaka
st kaka-hlothona
Chinese 南非黄眼草
Chinese 黄谷精
Zulu udoyi oluncane

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Name Authority First published in
Xyris capensis var. capensis Unknown
Xyris capensis var. pallescens Malme Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 48: 306 (1912)

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Ethiopia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
      • Zambia
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Botswana
      • Cape Provinces
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Lesotho
      • Namibia
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Mali
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
      • Sierra Leone
      • Togo
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cameroon
      • Congo
      • Equatorial Guinea
      • Gabon
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Madagascar
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam
      • East Himalaya
      • India
      • Nepal
      • Sri Lanka
    • Indo-China
      • Cambodia
      • Laos
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Jawa
      • Malaya
      • Maluku
      • Sulawesi
      • Sumatera
    • Papuasia
      • New Guinea

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000609515
Tropicos 34300290
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:871379-1
The Plant List kew-272563
Open Tree Of Life 285512
NCBI Taxonomy 114207
IUCN Red List 194168
IPNI 871379-1
iNaturalist 437145
GBIF 2692791
EPPO XYRCP
EOL 984568

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