- Family:
- Asphodelaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Bulbine Wolf
Bulbine asphodeloides (L.) Spreng.

[FZ]
Asphodelaceae, S. Kativu. Flora Zambesiaca 12:3. 2001
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herb 25–60 cm tall, erect, glabrous; plants clustered, few to many arising from a woody rhizome.
- Vegetative Multiplication Rhizomes
- Rhizome 1–5(10) × 0.6–1 cm, subcylindrical with spreading fibrous to ± fleshy roots.
- Morphology Stem
- Stems 0–7 cm long, simple or branched, woody, sheathed by persistent closely overlapping hyaline-margined leaf bases, with adventitious roots in older plants.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves 6–numerous, closely spaced on a contracted stem or apparently basal, erect to arching, fleshy grass-like, ± abruptly expanded and sheathing at the base; the bases broadly hyaline-winged, successively overlapping bases of inner leaves; blade 10–30(50) cm long and 2–5 mm wide, linear-terete, flat or concave on the adaxial surface and tapering to the apex, expanded and winged in the lower 1–3 cm.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Peduncles
- Peduncle usually 1 per branch, ascending-erect, terete, ± fleshy becoming stoutly rigid, up to c. 43 cm long and 2–4 mm in diameter.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Raceme usually overtopping the leaves, ± densely many-flowered, cylindrical, 5–15 cm long increasing to c. 20 cm long in fruit; bracts 5–7 mm long, finely subulate, broadly hyaline-winged toward the base with hyaline auricles, lacerate-fimbriate on the margins and particularly the auricles, persistent; pedicels ± closely spaced, filiform or slender, patent, mostly 7–20 mm long after anthesis, straight, becoming ± curved in the fruiting inflorescence, often ± strongly recurved at the apical end in barren pedicels, persistent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Tepal
- Tepals yellow, up to 6 mm long, inner 3 mm wide, outer 2 mm wide, elliptical, persistent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Filaments c. 2–3 mm long, densely bearded in the upper part with long yellow hairs; anthers c. 1 mm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Style c. 3 mm long, terete.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule not inflated when mature, substipitate, c. 4 mm long and 5 mm wide, 3-lobed, depressed at the apex.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds 2–4 per locule, 1–1.5 mm long, 3-sided, with sharp angles, brownish-black, sometimes with pale dots and/or a ± reticulate pattern of low sharp incipient ridges on the surface.
Native to:
Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Swaziland
Introduced into:
Italy
- Anthericum altissimum Mill.
- Anthericum asphodeloides L.
- Anthericum longiscapum Jacq.
- Anthericum succulentum Salisb.
- Bulbine altissima (Mill.) Fourc.
- Bulbine crocea L.Guthrie
- Bulbine dielsii Poelln.
- Bulbine longiscapa (Jacq.) Willd.
- Bulbine mettinghii Ten.
- Bulbine pallida Baker
- Phalangium altissimum (Mill.) Kuntze
- Phalangium asphodelodes (L.) Kuntze
- Phalangium longiscapum (Jacq.) Kuntze
Bulbine asphodeloides (L.) Spreng. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Tanner, R. [475], Tanzania | 15159.000 | No | |||
Rayner, R.W. [280], Kenya | 16709.000 | No | |||
Gillett, J.B. [13145], Kenya | 2379.000 | No | |||
Milne-Redhead, E. [8269], Tanzania | 24427.000 | No | |||
Wood, G.H.S. [708], Uganda | 4417.000 | No | |||
Baur, R. [417], South Africa | Bulbine pallida | K000256283 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Swaziland | Bulbine longiscapa | 22781.000 | No | ||
Page [16393], South Africa | Bulbine crocea | K000256302 | Unknown type material | Yes |
First published in Syst. Veg., 2: 85 (1825)
Accepted by
- Del Guacchio, E. (2015). Integrazioni, aggiornamenti e note alla flora esotica della Campania. Informatore Botanico Italiano 47: 147-154.
- 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. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
- Pope, G.V. (ed.) (2001). Flora Zambesiaca 12(3): 1-106. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Del Guacchio, E. (2015). Integrazioni, aggiornamenti e note alla flora esotica della Campania. Informatore Botanico Italiano 47: 147-154.
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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