Asphodelaceae
Kniphofia

Kniphofia uvaria (L.) Oken

First published in Allg. Naturgesch. 3(1): 566 (1841)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SW. & S. Cape Prov. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome. It is has environmental uses and as a medicine.

Distribution

Native to:

Cape Provinces

Introduced into:

Argentina Northeast, California, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Madeira, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest, Oregon, Portugal, Spain, St.Helena, Tasmania, Türkey, Washington

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

Kew's Tree of Life Explorer

Discover the flowering plant tree of life and the genomic data used to build it.

View the Tree of Life
PAFTOL

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Brown, L.C. (1982). The Flora and Fauna of St Helena: 1-88. Land Resources Development Centre, Surbiton, England.
  • Cantero, J.J. & al. (2016). Novedades para la flora de la Argentina. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 51: 183-207.
  • Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1984). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 8: 1-632. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
  • Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1993). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(2): 1-70. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Parslow, R. & Bennallick, I. (2017). The new flora of the Isles of Scilly: 1-539. Parslow Press.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
  • Whitehouse, C. (2016). Kniphofia; The complete guide: 1-440. Royal Horticultural Society.
  • de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • (2023). http://www.floramontiberica.org/Bouteloua/Bouteloua_33.pdf. epublication.
  • Brown, L.C. (1982). The Flora and Fauna of St Helena: 1-88. Land Resources Development Centre, Surbiton, England.
  • Cantero, J.J. & al. (2016). Novedades para la flora de la Argentina. Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 51: 183-207.
  • Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1984). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 8: 1-632. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
  • Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1993). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(2): 1-70. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Muer, T., Sauerbier, H. & Cabrara Calixto, F. (2020). Die Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Madeiras: 1-792. Verlag und Versandbuchhandlung Andreas Kleinsteuber.
  • Parslow, R. & Bennallick, I. (2017). The new flora of the Isles of Scilly: 1-539. Parslow Press.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
  • de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • 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/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Thompson, M.F. [3745] South Africa K002212903 Yes
Hutchinson, J. [436] South Africa K002212872 Yes
van Breda [B] South Africa K002212882 Yes
[CBS]; Prior, A. [s.n.] K002212896 Yes
Admiraal [2092] South Africa K002212852 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002213124 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [227] South Africa K002212887 Yes
Codd, L.E. [6354] South Africa K002212878 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002212854 Yes
Hutchinson, J. [1184] South Africa K002212879 Yes
[C B S]; Prior, A. [s.n.] K002212897 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [227] South Africa K002212886 Yes
Burchell [s.n.] South Africa K000256248 Type Yes
Galpin, E.E. [12832] South Africa K002212871 Yes
van Breda [s.n.] South Africa K002212863 Yes
Bester, S.P. [3530] South Africa K002212910 Yes
Marais, W. [878] South Africa K002212876 Yes
Hanekom, W.J. [2175] South Africa K002212902 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [545] South Africa K002212885 Yes
Wells, M.J. [2874] South Africa K002212907 Yes
Breda, V. [3] South Africa K002212859 Yes
Breda, V. [3] South Africa K002212857 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [540] South Africa K002212892 Yes
van Breda [s.n.] South Africa K002212864 Yes
Fourcade, H.G. [1133] K002212894 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [226] South Africa K002212867 Yes
Breda, V. [Z(5)] South Africa K002212862 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [558A] South Africa K002212883 Yes
Hodge, W.H. [8580] South Africa K002212865 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [223] South Africa K002212868 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [232] South Africa K002212873 Yes
s.coll. [2444] South Africa K002212860 Yes
Story, R. [3858] South Africa K002212888 Yes
{Drège} [s.n.] South Africa K002212895 Yes
[J. Creno] [2187] South Africa K002212884 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002212881 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002213126 Yes
Snijman, D.A. [1014] South Africa K002212908 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [222] South Africa K002212853 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [226] South Africa K002212866 Yes
Esterhuysen, E. [7133] South Africa K002212893 Yes
Hodge, W.H. [8569] South Africa K002212898 Yes
Galpin, E.E. [1810] K002212889 Yes
Breda, V. [s.n.] South Africa K002212856 Yes
Werdermann, E.; Oberdieck, H.D. [482] South Africa K002212851 Yes
Admiraal, J. [1001] South Africa K002212858 Yes
Hanekom, W.J. [2596] South Africa K002212906 Yes
van Breda [200] South Africa K002212869 Yes
Hodge, W.H. [8579] South Africa K002212855 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002213122 Yes
Bayliss, R.D.A. [3917] South Africa K002212877 Yes
Boucher, C. [1260] South Africa K002212905 Yes
Van Wyk, C.M. [779] South Africa K002212904 Yes
Marais, W. [877] South Africa K002212875 Yes
Comins, D.M. [1010] South Africa K002212874 Yes
Snijman, D.A. [981] South Africa K002212909 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [554] South Africa K002212891 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002213123 Yes
Bruce, E.A. [558B] South Africa K002212901 Yes
Garside, S. [1384] South Africa K002212900 Yes
s.coll. [10367] South Africa K002212870 Yes
Burchell [s.n.] South Africa K000256249 Type Yes
Garside, S. [229] K002212899 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002213125 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002213127 Yes
s.coll. [276] South Africa K002212880 Yes
Breda, V. [Z(5)] South Africa K002212861 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

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

  • 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 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

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

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