Pancratium centrale (A.Chev.) Traub

Native to:

Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Demissew, S. & Nordal, I. (2004). Pancratium centrale (=Mizonia centralis) - a rare Central African species discovered in Ethiopia. Kew Bulletin 59: 117-121.
• Demissew, S. & Nordal, I. (2010). Aloes and other Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea, ed, 2: 1-351. Shama Books, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• Hedberg, I., Friis, I. & Persson, E. (2009). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 1: 1-305. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.

Kew Bulletin

• --- & --- (2002). Crinum bambusetum, a new species of Amaryllidaceae from North East Africa. Kew Bull. 57: 465 - 469.
• --- (1917). Amaryllidaceae, in Novitates florae africanae. Plantes nouvelles de l'Afrique tropical francaise décrites d'apres les collections de M. Aug. Chevalier. Bull. Soc. Bot. France, sér. 4, XIV. Mém. 8e: 302 - 303.
• --- (1935). Sur une Amaryllidée mal connu de l'Afrique Centrale. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris Sér. 2, 7: 217-218.
• --- (1950). Trois Amaryllidées cultivées en Afrique Tropicale par les Noirs. Rev. Bot. Appliq. 30: 626 - 629.
• --- (1997). Amaryllidaceae. In: S. Edwards, Sebsebe Demissew & I. Hedberg (eds.), Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea Vol. 6: 157 - 163. Addis Ababa, Uppsala.
• ---, ---, Herrmann, C, Friis, I., Tesfaye Awas & Stabbetorp, O. (2004). The Benshangul-Gumuz area - a new local centre of endemism in the border region between W. Ethiopia and E. Sudan. Biol. Skr.
• ---, Sebsebe Demissew & Stabbetorp, O. (2001). Endemism in groups of Ethiopian geophytes ('Liliiflorae'). Biol. Skr. 54: 247 - 258.
• Bjørnstad, I. N. (1973). A revision of the genus Pancratium L. (Amaryllidaceae) in Africa south of the Sahara. Norw. J. Bot. 20: 281 - 291.
• Chevalier, A. (1913). Études sur la Flore de l'Afrique Centrale Francaise (Bassins de l'Oubangui et du Chari). Tome I. Énumération des plantes récoltées. A. Challemel, Paris.
• Edwards, S., Sebsebe Demissew & Hedberg, I. (1997). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea Vol. 6, Hydrocharitaceae to Arecaceae. Addis Ababa, Uppsala.
• Friis, I. & Vollesen, K. (1999). Drimia sudanica, nom. nov. (Hyacinthaceae), a rare species of the Sudanian grasslands. Nordic J. Bot. 19: 209 - 212.
• Menassie Gashaw, Michelsen, A., Friis, I., Jensen, M., Sebsebe Demissew & Zerihun Woldu 2002). Post- fire regeneration strategies and tree bark resistance to heating in frequently burning tropical savannah woodlands and grasslands in Ethiopia. Nordic J. Bot. 22: 19 - 33.
• Nordal, I. (1987). Amaryllidacées. In: B. Satabié & P. Morat (eds.), Flore du Cameroun Vol. 30: 3-31. Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, Yaoundé, Cameroun.
• Sebsebe Demissew, Nordal, I. & Stabbetorp, O. (2003). Aloes and other lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Addis Ababa. Shamas Nature Series, Addis Ababa.
• Traub, H. P. (1963). Notes on Amaryllidaceae. Plant Life 19: 59.
• White, F. (1983). The vegetation of Africa. UNESCO, Paris.

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Demissew, S. & Nordal, I. (2004). Pancratium centrale (=Mizonia centralis) - a rare Central African species discovered in Ethiopia. Kew Bulletin 59: 117-121.