Matapan
Classification:
3 W-R[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, before 1941
Awards:
Special Class:
Seed Parent: 
Coronach 3 W-R 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Coronach
Pollen Parent: 
Forfar 3 W-O 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1930
(Beacon x Fortune) x Sunstar
Forfar
Pedigree Chart:
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
9 times as seed, 31 times as pollen
Descendants:
Comments

Fl. 81 mm wide; perianth segments very broadly ovate, truncate, prominently mucronate, pure white, a little concave, very smooth and of thick substance, with midrib showing, ribbed, overlapping half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, only slightly mucronate; corona orange-red, mouth widely expanded and frilled, with three overlapping lobes.