Scadoxus
| Habit | bulbous
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| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Features: | ✓ | flowers |
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Scadoxus is a genus of 9 species native to tropical Africa. The genus has close affinities with Haemanthus.
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Species
Species in the genus are
- S. cinnabarinus (Decne.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West and Central Africa
- S. cyrtanthiflorus (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Ruwenzori mountains between Zaire and Uganda
- S. longifolius (De Wild. & Th.Dur.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West Africa
- S. membranaceus (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - South Africa
- S. multiflorus Rafin.
- ssp. multiflorus - Senegal and southern Arabia in the north down to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
- ssp. katherinae (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - southern Africa
- ssp. longitubus (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West Africa
- S. nutans (I.Friis & Bjrnst.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Ethiopia
- S. pole-evansii (Oberm.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Zimbabwe
- S. pseudocaulus (Bjrnst. & I.Friis) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Tropical Africa
- S. puniceus (L.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - South Africa, Tanzania and Ethiopia
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References
External links
- w:Scadoxus. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Scadoxus QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)