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Gloriosa rigidifolia

Common names: Waterberg bells, butter lily, yellow lily (Eng.); geelklokkies (Afr.)

Family: Colchicaceae

... on tepals. Gloriosa belongs in the crocus family (Colchicaceae). Other members of this family that are ... colchicine suggests that it is restricted to Colchicaceae. Gloriosa superba contains the alkaloid ... colchicine, which is present in most members of the family Colchicaceae, and from which the name of the compound has ...

30 / 12 / 2024 | Stoffel Petrus Pieter Bester | National Herbarium Pretoria

Common names: pepper-and-salt flower (Eng.); sout-en-peper-blommetjie (Afr.); khahlana-ea-loti (seSotho)

Family: Colchicaceae

... the species name elatior means tall. Wurmbeas are in the Colchicaceae family, which was formerly part of Liliaceae. ...

12 / 06 / 2023 | Sibahle Gumede | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership

Common names: flame lily, climbing lily, Turk’s cap, superb lily, glory lily, gloriosa lily (Eng.); vlamlelie, boslelie, geelboslelie, rooiboslelie (Afr.); ihlamv

Family: Colchicaceae

... G. virescens Lindl. Gloriosa belongs in the crocus family (Colchicaceae). Other members of this family that are ...

15 / 06 / 2015 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG

Common names: Spider lily (Eng.), Swartkoppie (Afr.)

Family: Colchicaceae

13 / 06 / 2011 | Olivia Tyambetyu | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership

Common names: beetle lily

Family: Colchicaceae

... for the species. Baeometra is a member of the family Colchicaceae, which comprises ± 15 genera and ± 225 species ...

23 / 02 / 2009 | John Manning | Compton Herbarium

Common names: Christmas bells (Eng.); geelklokkie (Afr.); ushayabhici (Zulu); ihlamvu (Zulu)

Family: Colchicaceae

... at their tips. Other southern African members of the Colchicaceae include the genera Androcymbium , Onixotis ...

25 / 12 / 2006 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG

Common names: cup and a saucer, men-in-a-boat (Eng.); bobbejaanskoen (Afr.)

Family: Colchicaceae

... of a floral tube; therefore various genera of the family Colchicaceae exploited a diversity of other unfamiliar ...

16 / 01 / 2006 | E T Rampho | National Herbarium Pretoria

Common names: vleiblommetjie (Afr.)

Family: Colchicaceae

27 / 06 / 2005 | Graham Duncan | Kirstenbosch NBG

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