Syringodea

Syringodea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1873. The entire genus is endemic to South Africa.^[1][2]

Syringodea
Syringodea longituba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Iridaceae
Subfamily:	Crocoideae
Tribe:	Croceae
Genus:	Syringodea Hook.f.
Type species
Syringodea pulchella Hook.f.

The genus name is derived from the Greek word syrinx, meaning "pipe", and alludes to the long perianth tube.^[3]

Species

Six species are accepted.^[4]

• Syringodea bifucata M.P.de Vos - Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng
• Syringodea concolor (Baker) M.P.de Vos - Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape
• Syringodea derustensis M.P.de Vos - Western Cape
• Syringodea flanaganii Baker - Eastern Cape
• Syringodea longituba (Klatt) Kuntze - Western Cape
• Syringodea pulchella Hook.f. (unplaced) - Eastern Cape
• Syringodea saxatilis M.P.de Vos - Western Cape

Formerly placed here

• Afrocrocus unifolius (Goldblatt) Goldblatt & J.C.Manning (as Syringodea unifolia Goldblatt)