- Family: Amaryllidaceae J.St.-Hil.
Ammocharis Herb.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & S. Africa.
Descriptions
According to Flora Zambesiaca
[FZ]Flora Zambesiaca Amaryllidaceae by C. Zimudzi, R.H. Archer, E.G. Kwembeya & I. Nordal
- Habit
- Bulbous plants with a large thickly tunicated bulb.
- Leaves
- Leaves distichous, biflabellately spreading on the ground, falcate, necrotic at apex, margin scabrous, midrib indistinct.
- Flowers
- Flowers umbellate, pedicellate, solitary to many, subtended by two spathe valves.
- Scape
- Scape arising laterally, solid, erect or reclining.
- Perianth
- Perianth linear to lanceolate, spreading to reflexed, connivent into a subcylindrical tube, which widens at the apex.
- Stamens
- Stamens protruding from perianth tube or slightly within tube; filaments filiform, arising from the base of the segments; anthers dorsifixed.
- Style
- Style filiform; stigma undivided.
- Fruits
- Fruit subglobose, indehiscent or bursting irregularly.
- Seeds
- Seeds fleshy, subglobose, greenish.
- Ecology
- A genus of about 8 species in Africa, with 4 in the Flora area.
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Amaryllidaceae, Inger Nordal (University of Oslo). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982
- Habit
- Bulbous plants with leaves biflabellately arranged, i.e. in 2 opposite fans
- Leaves
- Leaves often falcate and strap-shaped, without intact apices and midrib indistinct, margin scabrous
- Scape
- Scape lateral, solid, compressed, with an inflorescence of 3–60 flowers subtended by 2 free bracts
- Flowers
- Flowers pedicellate, hypocrateriform, with a long narrow tube and spreading to recurved linear to lanceolate perianth-segments
- Filaments
- Filaments from the base of the segments, filiform
- Pistil
- Ovary with many ovules per locule; style long, with undivided stigma
- Fruits
- Capsule membranous, indehiscent or opening irregularly
- Seeds
- Seeds fleshy, subglobose, pale green, often germinating in the fruit.
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Distribution
Native to:
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Accepted Species
- Ammocharis angolensis (Baker) Milne-Redh. & Schweick.
- Ammocharis baumii (Harms) Milne-Redh. & Schweick.
- Ammocharis coranica (Ker Gawl.) Herb.
- Ammocharis deserticola Snijman & Kolberg
- Ammocharis longifolia (L.) Herb.
- Ammocharis nerinoides (Baker) Lehmiller
- Ammocharis tinneana (Kotschy & Peyr.) Milne-Redh. & Schweick.
Synonyms
Other Data
Ammocharis Herb. appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (1 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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Middlemost, A.J., South Africa | Cybistetes | 19082.000 |
Bibliography
First published in Appendix: 17 (1821)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- ―Milne-Redhead & Schweickert in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 52: 169 (1939).
- Appendix: 17 (1821).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- emend. Milne-Redh. & Schweick. in J.L.S. 52: 169 (1939)
- App.: 17 (1821)
Sources
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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