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Clivia miniata var. citrina

Clivia miniata var. citrina ‘Kirstenbosch Yellow’
Common names: yellow clivia, yellow bush lily (Eng.); geelboslelie (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... and to mountains near Vanrhynsdorp. Within the family Amaryllidaceae, Clivia falls within the tribe Haemantheae , ...

02 / 10 / 2017 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Nerine krigei

Nerine krigei has distinctive erect, spirally twisted leaves (Georg Fritz)
Common names: corkskrew nerine, curly leaved nerine (Eng.); draaiblaar nerine (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... early 1930s. Nerine is a genus of 24 species in the family Amaryllidaceae, 20 of which are endemic to the geographic ...

06 / 02 / 2017 | Thato Moeketsane | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Crossyne guttata

Crossyne guttata (Hedi Stummer)
Common names: parasol lily, April fool lily (Eng.); sambreelblom (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... dependent on fire to flower. Like most members of the Amaryllidaceae, the seeds have a characteristic black or blue ... is the new name for two species of bulbs belonging in the Amaryllidaceae family. These plants were previously thought ...

01 / 08 / 2016 | Sisanda Alakhe Velembo-Mhlauli | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Nerine bowdenii

Nerine bowdenii subsp. bowdenii from southern KwaZulu-Natal
Common names: large pink nerine (Eng.); grootpienknerina (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... especially in the United Kingdom. Members of the family Amaryllidaceae contain toxic alkaloid compounds and all parts ...

23 / 11 / 2015 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Cryptostephanus

Cryptostephanus vansonii
Common names: none known
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... version of the discoverer’s name. Within the family Amaryllidaceae, Cryptostephanus belongs to the tribe ... Cryptostephanus is one of only three genera in the African Amaryllidaceae which does not have a true bulb, but a ...

29 / 06 / 2015 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Hessea mathewsii

Flowering in  habitat
Common names: hessea
Family: Amaryllidaceae

16 / 03 / 2015 | Brittany Arendse | CREW
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Strumaria phonolithica

Plant in flower
Common names: none known
Family: Amaryllidaceae

21 / 07 / 2014 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Hessea

Hessea stellaris. Colin Paterson-Jones
Common names: umbrella lilies; sambreeltjies (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... club-shaped. The ovary, which is inferior as in all Amaryllidaceae, has up to four ovules in each of its three ...

26 / 05 / 2014 | D Snijman | Compton Herbarium
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Crinum macowanii

Crinum macowanii
Common names: river crinum, river lily, common vlei-lily, Sabie crinum, Cape coast lily (Eng.); rivierlelie, boslelie, Sabielelie (Afr.); intelezi (isiXhosa); umduz
Family: Amaryllidaceae

11 / 11 / 2013 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Cyrtanthus ventricosus

Flowers. Photo Colin Paterson Jones
Common names: fire lily; brandlelie (Afrikaans)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... With about 50 species, Cyrtanthus is the largest genus of Amaryllidaceae in southern Africa. The genus extends from as ... the greatest floral diversity of all African members of Amaryllidaceae, probably due to the plants having become ...

07 / 10 / 2013 | D Snijman | Compton Herbarium
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Cyrtanthus flammosus

Cyrtanthus flammosus growing in habitat
Common names: Kouga flame lily (Eng.); Kouga-vlamlelie (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

22 / 07 / 2013 | Ernst van Jaarsveld | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Haemanthus crispus

Flower
Common names: crispy-leaved paintbrush lily
Family: Amaryllidaceae

27 / 05 / 2013 | Anthony R. Magee | Compton Herbarium
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Cyrtanthus leucanthus

Cyrtanthus leucanthus
Common names: white fire lily (Eng.); witbergpypie (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... a threatened species of the largest African genus in the Amaryllidaceae family. Cyrtanthus leucanthus Schltr. ...

12 / 03 / 2012 | Vathiswa Zikishe | CREW
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Nerine filifolia

Nerine filifolia
Common names: grass-leaved nerine (Eng.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

16 / 01 / 2012 | Paul Herman | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Haemanthus canaliculatus

Haemanthus canaliculatus
Common names: channel-leaved haemanthus
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... be disturbed once well established. The Amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, has about 60 genera of which 19 occur in ... 280 are found in southern Africa. [This classification of Amaryllidaceae is in the sense of Leistner (2000).] In the ...

28 / 11 / 2011 | Jane Forrester | Harold Porter NBG
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Nerine undulata

Nerine undulata
Common names: nerine (Eng.); seeroogblom, berglelie (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... Vasco da Gama's armada en route to India. The family name Amaryllidaceae is derived from Amaryllis , the name of a ...

01 / 08 / 2011 | Stemmer Ngalo | Free State NBG
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Boophone haemanthoides

Boophone haemanthoides subsp. ernesti-ruschii
Common names: Namaqua century plant (Eng.); gifbol, kwaslelie(Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

28 / 02 / 2011 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Cyrtanthus obliquus

Cyrtanthus obliquus flowers
Common names: Knysna lily (Eng.); Knysnalelie (Afr.); Umathaga (IsiZulu)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

26 / 10 / 2009 | Lufuno Konanani | KwaZulu-Natal NBG
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Brunsvigia bosmaniae

Brunsvigia bosmaniae display at Hantam NBG
Common names: candelabra lily (Eng.); Maartblom, kandelaar (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... to note that brunsvigias, like all the other genera of Amaryllidaceae, have a very high alkaloid content, and ...

27 / 04 / 2009 | Colleen Rust | Hantam NBG
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Strumaria

Strumeria prolifera flower-heads
Common names: Cape snowflake (Eng.); tolbol (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... cycle is much like that of other deciduous members of the Amaryllidaceae from the winter rainfall region of South ... Strumaria Jacq. Strumaria Among the southern African Amaryllidaceae, Strumaria is second only to Cyrtanthus in ...

15 / 09 / 2008 | D Snijman | Compton Herbarium
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