Amaryllidaceae
Agapanthus

Agapanthus africanus (L.) Hoffmanns.

First published in Verz. Pfl.-Kult.: 35 (1824)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SW. Cape Prov. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is used as a medicine and has environmental uses.

Distribution

Native to:

Cape Provinces

Introduced into:

Ascension, Jamaica, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Trinidad-Tobago, West Himalaya

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Duncan, G. (2021). The Genus Agapanthus: 1-244. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1993). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(1): 1-76. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
  • Fairhurst, W. (2004). Flowering Plants of Ascension island: 1-300. Higham Press, Shirland, Alfreton, England.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Kumar, S. (2012). Herbaceous flora of Jaunsar-Bawar (Uttarkhand), India: enumerations. Phytotaxonomy 12: 33-56.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Duncan, G. (2021). The Genus Agapanthus: 1-244. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1993). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(1): 1-76. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
  • Fairhurst, W. (2004). Flowering Plants of Ascension island: 1-300. Higham Press, Shirland, Alfreton, England.
  • Kumar, S. (2012). Herbaceous flora of Jaunsar-Bawar (Uttarkhand), India: enumerations. Phytotaxonomy 12: 33-56.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
s.coll. [s.n.] K002849209 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002849210 Yes
K:SPC-05418.000 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002849212 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002849211 Yes
s.coll. [H2636/64] K002849213 Yes
s.coll. [s.n. ] Agapanthus umbellatus var. leichtlinii K002849217 Yes
{Drège} [4570C] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849013 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Agapanthus umbellatus K002849215 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Agapanthus umbellatus K002849216 Yes
Hodge, W.H. [A30] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849012 Yes
Kuntze, C.E.O. [s.n.] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849015 Yes
[Maubway] [1664] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849025 Yes
Admiraal, J. [429] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849009 Yes
Mac Owan [1914] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849016 Yes
Sieber [238] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849022 Yes
Yorke, H.F.R. [13] Agapanthus umbellatus K002849024 Yes
Rodin, R.J. [3262] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849019 Yes
Esterhuysen, E.E. [24097] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849020 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Agapanthus umbellatus K002849018 Yes
Esterhuysen, E.E. [2533] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849011 Yes
Kuntze, C.E.O. [I92] Agapanthus umbellatus K002849023 Yes
Kuntze, C.E.O. [s.n.] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849014 Yes
Werner, H. [NBG 71/50] South Africa Agapanthus umbellatus K002849010 Yes
Dryden Dymond, M.E. [s.n.] Agapanthus umbellatus K002849021 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Living Collection Database

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0