Strelitzia reginae Banks

First published in Icon. Strelitzia reginae (1788)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-Natal. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is used as a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal

Introduced into:

Bangladesh, Comoros, Juan Fernández Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

Classification

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PAFTOL

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  • Albano, P.-O. (2003). La Conaissance des Plantes Exotiques: 1-324. Édisud, Aix-en-Provence.
  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Species Profiles

  • Beckett, K. A. (1987). The RHS Encyclopaedia of House Plants. Century Hutchinson.
  • Dyer, R. A. (1975). The status of Strelitzia juncea. Bothalia 11 (4): 519-520.
  • Everard, B. & Morley, B. (1970). Wild Flowers of the World. Peerage Books.
  • Foster, R. (1983). The Gardener's Guide to Rare, Exotic and Difficult Plants. David and Charles.
  • Heywood, V. H. (1978). Flowering Plants of the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Huxley, A., Griffiths, M. & Levy, M. (eds) (1992). The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. Vol. 4 (R to Z): 386-387. Macmillan Press, London.
  • Moore, H. E. & Hyypio, P. A. (1970). Some comments on Strelitzia (Strelitziaceae). Baileya 17 (2): 64-74.
  • Perry, F. & Greenwood, L. (1987). Flowers of the World. Spring Books.
  • Van de Venter, H. A., Small, J. G. C. & Roberts, P. J. (1975). Notes on the distribution and comparative leaf morphology of the acaulescent species of Strelitzia Ait.. Journal of South African Botany 41 (1): 1-16.

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

  • Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  • Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.

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
  • Cámara-Leret, R., & Dennehy, Z. (2019). Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science-policy assessments. Nature Sustainability 2:736-741.
  • 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.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • 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/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Ulian, T., Sacandé, M., Hudson, A., & Mattana, E. (2017). Conservation of indigenous plants to support community livelihoods: the MGU–Useful Plants Project. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 60:668-683.
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
s.coll. [s.n.] K002916669 Yes
Bourne; Griffith [5100] India K002916657 Yes
Houghting, R.B. [s.n.] South Africa K002916639 Yes
Drege [s.n.] South Africa K002916641 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002916638 Yes
C.G.H. [1773] K002916642 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002916667 Yes
s.coll. [641980] South Africa K002916666 Yes
Goodspeed, T.H. [23228] Argentina K002916665 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] South Africa K002916637 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002916636 Yes
Cooper, T. [1225] South Africa K002916640 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002916668 Yes
[C.P.R.] [s.n.] Strelitzia regalis K002916649 Yes
Gill [s.n.] Strelitzia regalis K002916652 Yes
Cooper, T. [1225] South Africa Strelitzia regalis K002916651 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Strelitzia regalis K002916650 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

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    • '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
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    • Kew Species Profiles
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0