Xenoscapa

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|taxon = Xenoscapa

|authority = (Goldblatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning.Syst. Bot. 20: 172 (1995).

|type_species = Xenoscapa fistulosa

|type_species_authority = (Sprengel ex Klatt) Goldblatt & J.C. Manning

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Xenoscapa is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the family Iridaceae. It consists of only three species distributed in Africa, and is closely related to the genera Freesia.{{cite book |last=Goldblatt |first=Peter |author2=John Manning |year=2008 |title=The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification |location=Portland |publisher=Timber Press |isbn=978-0-88192-897-6}}Peter Goldblatt and John C. Manning. 1995. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/2419447 Phylogeny of the African Genera Anomatheca and Freesia (Iridaceae: Ixioideae), and a New Genus Xenoscapa]. Systematic Botany, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 161-178 The genus name is derived from the Greek words xenos, meaning "strange", and scapa, meaning "flowering stem".{{cite book |author1=Manning, John |author2=Goldblatt, Peter |title=The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification |publisher=Timber Press |location=Portland, Oregon|pages=91–93 |year=2008|isbn=978-0-88192-897-6}}