Zygotritonia
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|taxon = Zygotritonia
|authority = Mildbr.Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58: 230 (1923).
|type_species = Zygotritonia bongensis
|type_species_authority = (Pax) Mildbraed
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = See text
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Zygotritonia is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the family Iridaceae. It contains four species distributed throughout sub-Saharan Africa.{{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| pages=}}Peter Goldblatt. 1989. Revision of the tropical African genus Zygotritonia (Iridaceae) . Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section B, Adansonia (Bull. Mus. natl. hist. nat., Sect. B, Adansonia) vol. 11, no2, pp. 199-212 {{ISSN|0240-8937}}. The genus name is derived from the word zygomorphic (meaning bilabiate), and the apparent resemblance to some species in the genus Tritonia.{{cite book |author1=Manning, John |author2=Goldblatt, Peter |title=The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification |publisher=Timber Press |location=Portland, Oregon|pages=120–123 |year=2008|isbn=978-0-88192-897-6}}
Species
The list of Zygotritonia species, with their complete name and authority, and their geographic distribution is given below.
- Zygotritonia atropurpurea Goldblatt (2019). Northern Zambia.{{Cite journal|last1=Goldblatt|first1=P.|last2=Manning|first2=J. C.|last3=Wightman|first3=N.|last4=McCleland|first4=W.|date=2019-08-01|title=Zygotritonia atropurpurea (Iridaceae: Crocoideae), a new local endemic species from northern Zambia of this small tropical African genus|journal=South African Journal of Botany|language=en|volume=124|pages=20–22|doi=10.1016/j.sajb.2019.04.016|s2cid=182781330 |issn=0254-6299|doi-access=free}}
- Zygotritonia bongensis (Pax) Mildbr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58: 230 (1923). West Tropical Africa to Socotra.
- Zygotritonia hysterantha Goldblatt, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia, IV, 11: 208 (1989). Central African Republic.
- Zygotritonia nyassana Mildbr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58: 231 (1923). Western Tanzania to Zambia.
- Zygotritonia praecox Stapf, Hooker's Icon. Pl. 32: t. 3120 (1933). Western Tropical Africa, Western Ethiopia.
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Category:Taxa named by Johannes Mildbraed
Category:Flora of the Afrotropical realm
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