Boophone Herb.

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae

Characteristics

Bulbous plants, with leaves sessile, distichous, strap-shaped and obtuse. Scape solid, with up to more than 100 flowers subtended by 2 free bracts. Flowers with pedicels considerably elongating in fruit, regular, funnel-shaped, with tube shorter than segments. Filaments inserted in the throat of the corolla-tube, filiform, with versatile anthers. Ovary triquetrous, with few ovules per locule. Capsule with 1 fleshy globose seed.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Boophone unspecified picture

Distribution

Boophone world distribution map, present in Angola, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sudan, eSwatini, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1372-1
WFO ID wfo-4000004996
COL ID 8VVNG
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Buphane Boophone

Lower taxons

Boophone haemanthoides Boophone disticha