Aristea ecklonii
Aristea ecklonii (common names: blue flies, blue stars, blue-eyed iris, blue corn-lily[2]) is a plant species in the Iridaceae, first described in 1866. It is native to central and southern Africa from South Africa north to Cameroon and Tanzania.[1][3][4][5][6] The plant is an evergreen perennial with small, blue flowers, growing in clumps with upright, grass-like leaves 15–18 in (38–46 cm) in height.[2]
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Iridaceae |
Genus: | Aristea |
Species: | A. ecklonii |
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Aristea ecklonii Baker 1877 | |
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It is an invasive species in high mountain forests of Sri Lanka near Nuwara Eliya and Horton Plains.[7][8] It is also an invasive in Australia.[9] It is also invasive in New Zealand where it is a pest species on the NPPA banned list.
References
- Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- Floridata entry
- Lebrun J.-P. & Stork, A.L. (1995). Énumération des Plants à Fleurs D'Afrique Tropicale 3: 1-341. Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève.
- Goldblatt, P. (1996). Iridaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-89.
- Geerinck, D (2005). Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaïre - Rwanda - Burundi) Iridaceae: 1-102. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Meise.
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Milan Lu, ““A growing threat” Archived 2016-08-13 at the Wayback Machine, Ceylon Today, 01.11.2011. Accessed 19.6.2016.
- Ranwala S., Marambe B.*, Wijesundara S., Silva P., Weerakoon D., Atapattu N., Gunawardena J., Manawadu L. and Gamage G. “Post-entry risk assessment of invasive alien flora of Sri Lanka - present status, gap analysis, and the most troublesome alien invaders”, Pakistan Journal of Weed Science 10/2012; 18:863-871.
- Australian Rainforest Conservation Society. "Blue Stars, Aristea ecklonii — a potentially disastrous weed found at Springbrook". Retrieved 2016-06-20.
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