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Albuca L.

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae

Characteristics

Plants slender to robust, usually flowering with the leaves, sometimes before. Leaves filiform to lanceolate, glabrous, ciliate or pubescent. Scape glabrous. Inflorescence a raceme with 3-150 flowers; pedicels erect or ascending; bracts lanceolate to ovate, acuminate with filiform apex, never spurred. Perianth-segments free, inner connivent to slightly spreading, outer slightly spreading, cream to greenish yellow, with a dorsal green band, apex cucullate with glands. Filaments free, inner with an expanded base that clasps the ovary, other flattened or clasping the ovary. Ovary 3-locular, with many ovules per locule. Capsule ovoid. Seeds black, flattened, semicircular.
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Perennial herbs with bulbs. Leaves radical, flat or terete, sheathing at base. Inflorescence a scapose bracteate raceme. Flowers bisexual, pedicellate, erect or nodding. Perianth segments 6, dimorphic, free; sepals spreading; petals connivent around androecium and gynoecium, glandular at tip. Stamens 3, or 6 in 2 whorls; outer whorl fertile, sterile, reduced or absent; filaments often winged or dilated at base; anthers versatile, dehiscing by slits, introrse. Ovary superior, trilocular; ovules numerous per locule; placentation axile; style usually obconical; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit usually a loculicidal capsule. Seeds numerous, flat, black.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Albuca world distribution map, present in Angola, Australia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Central African Republic, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Libya, Lesotho, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, eSwatini, Chad, Togo, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23948-1
WFO ID wfo-4000001111
COL ID 8VTJB
BDTFX ID 98233
INPN ID 606995
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Synonyms

Albuca Albugoides Stellarioides

Lower taxons

Albuca glandulosa Albuca acuminata Albuca adlami Albuca amboensis Albuca aurea Albuca batteniana Albuca bifolia Albuca bruce-bayeri Albuca buchananii Albuca canadensis Albuca caudata Albuca chlorantha Albuca ciliaris Albuca collina Albuca concordiana Albuca cooperi Albuca corymbosa Albuca donaldsonii Albuca etesiogaripensis Albuca fastigiata Albuca foetida Albuca fragrans Albuca gageoides Albuca galeata Albuca glauca Albuca goswinii Albuca hallii Albuca hereroensis Albuca hesquaspoortensis Albuca leucantha Albuca longifolia Albuca longipes Albuca macowanii Albuca malangensis Albuca massonii Albuca namaquensis Albuca nana Albuca navicula Albuca nelsonii Albuca nigritana Albuca papyracea Albuca paradoxa Albuca polyphylla Albuca steudneri Albuca subspicata Albuca sudanica Albuca tenuifolia Albuca vittata Albuca weberlingiorum Albuca xanthocodon Albuca yerburyi Albuca zebrina Albuca zenkeri Albuca albucoides Albuca amoena Albuca arenosa Albuca barbata Albuca consanguinea Albuca costatula Albuca dilucula Albuca dyeri Albuca gethylloides Albuca glaucifolia Albuca karachabpoortensis Albuca knersvlaktensis Albuca nathoana Albuca obtusa Albuca osmynella Albuca ovata Albuca paucifolia Albuca pearsonii Albuca pendulina Albuca pentheri Albuca prasina Albuca psammophora Albuca pulchra Albuca roodeae Albuca sabulosa Albuca scabrocostata Albuca secunda Albuca seineri Albuca strigosula Albuca stuetzeliana Albuca suaveolens Albuca subglandulosa Albuca unifolia Albuca virens Albuca volubilis Albuca watermeyeri Albuca bifoliata Albuca cremnophila Albuca crinifolia Albuca crudenii Albuca dalyae Albuca decipiens Albuca echinosperma Albuca fibrotunicata Albuca flaccida Albuca humilis Albuca juncifolia Albuca karooica Albuca monophylla Albuca prolifera Albuca robertsoniana Albuca rogersii Albuca rupestris Albuca scabro-marginata Albuca schinzii Albuca schlechteri Albuca schoenlandii Albuca semipedalis Albuca setosa Albuca spiralis Albuca thermarum Albuca tortuosa Albuca trachyphylla Albuca unifoliata Albuca variegata Albuca villosa Albuca viscosa Albuca bakeri Albuca boucheri Albuca darlingana Albuca riebeekkasteelberganula Albuca grandis Albuca deserticola Albuca glandulifera Albuca crispa Albuca autumnula Albuca kirstenii Albuca monarchos Albuca englerana Albuca abyssinica Albuca deaconii Albuca chartacea Albuca craibii Albuca comosa Albuca recurva Albuca gildenhuysii Albuca buffelspoortensis Albuca exigua Albuca annulata Albuca gariepensis Albuca somersetianum Albuca anisocrispa Albuca pseudobifolia Albuca heydenrychii Albuca littoralis Albuca rautanenii Albuca candida Albuca kirkii Albuca stapffii Albuca bracteata Albuca polyodontula Albuca tubiformis Albuca toxicaria Albuca pendula Albuca shawii Albuca tenuis Albuca clanwilliamae-gloria Albuca dinteri Albuca engleriana Albuca karasbergensis Albuca lebaensis Albuca gentilii Albuca homblei Albuca katangensis Albuca kundelungensis Albuca myogaloides
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