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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Brunsvigia''
| image = Brunsvigia josephinae (Villa Hanbuy, Italy).JPG
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''[[Brunsvigia josephinae]]''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Lilliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Amaryllidaceae]]
| genus = '''''Brunsvigia'''''
}}

'''''Brunsvigia''''' is a [[flowering plant]] [[genus]] in the [[family]] [[Amaryllidaceae]]. It contains about 20 [[species]] native to [[South Africa]].

''Brunsvigia'' are tender bulbs, winter-growing and summer-dormant, generally flowering in early autumn. Their flowers are brilliant scarlet, pink, or red. Species include:
* ''[[Brunsvigia appendiculata]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia bosmaniae]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia comptonii]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia grandiflora]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia gregaria]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia herrei]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia josephinae]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia litoralis]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia marginata]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia natalensis]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia orientalis]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia pulchra]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia radula]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia radulosa]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia striata]]''
* ''[[Brunsvigia undulata]]''

== External links ==
* [http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Brunsvigia/Brunsvigialist.shtml Bulb Society gallery]

== References ==
* R.A. Dyer, 1950: ''A review of the genus Brunsvigia''. Plant Life 6: 63-83
* R.A. Dyer, 1951: ''A review of the genus Brunsvigia''. Plant Life 7: 44-64
* C.A. Smith, 1966: ''Common names of South African plants''. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 35. TheGovernment Printer, Pretoria
* R.S. Adamson, T.A. Salter (eds.), 1950: ''Flora of the Cape Peninsula''. Juta, Cape Town and Johannesburg
* J. Manning, P. Goldblatt, 2000: ''Wild flowers of the fairest Cape''. Red Roof Design in association with the Nationalotanical Institute, Cape Town
* E.G. Rice, R.H. Compton, 1950: ''Wild flowers of the Cape of Good Hope''. The Botanical Society of SA, Cape Town
* A. Pauw, S. Johnson, 1999: ''Table Mountain: a natural history''. Fernwood Press
* G.D. Duncan, 2000: ''Grow bulbs''. Kirstenbosch Gardening Series, National Botanical Institute, Cape Town
* G.D. Duncan, 2002: ''Grow nerines''. Kirstenbosch Gardening Series, National Botanical Institute, Cape Town

[[Category:Amaryllidaceae]]
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