- Family: Amaryllidaceae J.St.-Hil.
Cyrtanthus Aiton
[FTEA]
Amaryllidaceae, Inger Nordal (University of Oslo). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1982
- Morphology General Habit
- Slender bulbous plants, with linear to strap-shaped leaves with entire apices produced with or after the flowers
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Scape
- Scape hollow, with 1–few-flowered inflorescences (in East Africa) subtended by 2 free bracts
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers tubular (not in East Africa) to funnel-shaped, regular to slightly irregular, suberect, nodding
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens inserted in the perianth-tube, with filiform filaments and versatile anthers
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary 3-locular, with many superposed ovules in 2 rows in each locule; style distinctly 3-lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a loculicidal capsule
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds many, black, flattened, with a wing.
Native to:
Angola, Cape Provinces, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Mauritius
- Cyrtanthus angustifolius (L.f.) Aiton
- Cyrtanthus attenuatus R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus aureolinus Snijman
- Cyrtanthus bicolor R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus brachyscyphus Baker
- Cyrtanthus brachysiphon Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
- Cyrtanthus breviflorus Harv.
- Cyrtanthus carneus Lindl.
- Cyrtanthus clavatus (L'Hér.) R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus collinus Ker Gawl.
- Cyrtanthus contractus N.E.Br.
- Cyrtanthus debilis Snijman
- Cyrtanthus elatus (Jacq.) Traub
- Cyrtanthus epiphyticus J.M.Wood
- Cyrtanthus erubescens Killick
- Cyrtanthus eucallus R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus falcatus R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus fergusoniae L.Bolus
- Cyrtanthus flammosus Snijman & Van Jaarsv.
- Cyrtanthus flanaganii Baker
- Cyrtanthus flavus Barnes
- Cyrtanthus galpinii Baker
- Cyrtanthus guthrieae L.Bolus
- Cyrtanthus helictus Lehm.
- Cyrtanthus herrei (F.M.Leight.) R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus huttonii Baker
- Cyrtanthus inaequalis O'Brien
- Cyrtanthus junodii Beauverd
- Cyrtanthus labiatus R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus leptosiphon Snijman
- Cyrtanthus leucanthus Schltr.
- Cyrtanthus loddigesianus (Herb.) R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus mackenii Hook.f.
- Cyrtanthus macmasteri Snijman
- Cyrtanthus macowanii Baker
- Cyrtanthus montanus R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus nutans R.A.Dyer
- Cyrtanthus obliquus (L.f.) Aiton
- Cyrtanthus obrienii Baker
- Cyrtanthus ochroleucus (Herb.) Burch. ex Steud.
- Cyrtanthus odorus Ker Gawl.
- Cyrtanthus rhodesianus Rendle
- Cyrtanthus rhododactylus Stapf
- Cyrtanthus rotundilobus N.E.Br.
- Cyrtanthus sanguineus (Lindl.) Walp.
- Cyrtanthus smithiae Watt ex Harv.
- Cyrtanthus spiralis Burch. ex Ker Gawl.
- Cyrtanthus staadensis Schönland
- Cyrtanthus stenanthus Baker
- Cyrtanthus striatus Herb.
- Cyrtanthus suaveolens Schönland
- Cyrtanthus taitii G.D.Duncan
- Cyrtanthus thorncroftii C.H.Wright
- Cyrtanthus tuckii Baker
- Cyrtanthus ventricosus Willd.
- Cyrtanthus wellandii Snijman
- Cyrtanthus welwitschii Hiern ex Baker
Cyrtanthus Aiton appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Hort. Kew. 1: 414 (1789)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Snijman, D.A. (2007). Notes on new and misunderstood taxa of Cyrtanthus (Amaryllidaceae: Cyrtantheae) from the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Bothalia 37: 1-8.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- Hort. Kew. 1: 414 (1789).
- ―Reid & Dyer, Rev. Sthn. Afr. Cyrtanthus: 1–68 (1984).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Dyer in Herbertia 6:65 (1940)
- Hort. Kew. 1:414 (1789)
- Nordal in Norw. Journ. Bot. 26: 183 (1979)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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