List of flowering plants in the family Hyacinthaceae recorded from South Africa
Hyacinthaceae is a family of bulbous monocotyledenous flowering plants (anthophytes) in the order Asparagales. Named after the genus Hyacinthus, Hyacinthaceae include many garden plants and are distributed mostly in Mediterranean climates, including South Africa, Central Asia and South America. Their flowers have six tepals and six stamens with a superior ovary, which previously placed them within the lily family (Liliaceae), and their leaves are fleshy, mucilaginous, and arranged in a basal rosette.
23,420 species of vascular plant have been recorded in South Africa, making it the sixth most species-rich country in the world and the most species-rich country on the African continent. Of these, 153 species are considered to be threatened.[1] Nine biomes have been described in South Africa: Fynbos, Succulent Karoo, desert, Nama Karoo, grassland, savanna, Albany thickets, the Indian Ocean coastal belt, and forests.[2]
The 2018 South African National Biodiversity Institute's National Biodiversity Assessment plant checklist lists 35,130 taxa in the phyla Anthocerotophyta (hornworts (6)), Anthophyta (flowering plants (33534)), Bryophyta (mosses (685)), Cycadophyta (cycads (42)), Lycopodiophyta (Lycophytes(45)), Marchantiophyta (liverworts (376)), Pinophyta (conifers (33)), and Pteridophyta (cryptogams (408)).[3]
43 genera are represented in the literature. Listed taxa include species, subspecies, varieties, and forms as recorded, some of which have subsequently been allocated to other taxa as synonyms, in which cases the accepted taxon is appended to the listing.[3] Multiple entries under alternative names reflect taxonomic revision over time.
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Hyacinthus, Hyacinthaceae include many garden plants and are distributed mostly in Mediterranean climates, including SouthAfrica, Central Asia and South America...
is a subfamily of bulbous plants within the family Asparagaceae. Scilloideae is sometimes treated as a separate family Hyacinthaceae, named after the...
Paxton. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 5 October 2023. Scillascillin-type homoisoflavanones from Drimiopsis maculata (Hyacinthaceae). Koorbanally...
Thunb. accepted as Lachenalia hirta (Thunb.) Thunb. indigenous Family: Hyacinthaceae, 43 genera have been recorded. Not all are necessarily currently accepted...
World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. Continental Publishing, Deurne. Stedje, B. (1996). Hyacinthaceae. Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-32. Gledhill...
Ornithogaloideae ofHyacinthaceae, now obsolete terms. The preferred treatment being to consider the Hyacinthaceae as subfamily Scilloideae of Asparagaceae...
having arisen in several lines within the Hyacinthaceae. Furthermore, it was observed that Chionodoxa was capable of hybridization with Scilla bifolia. It...
molecular phylogeny and a revised classification of Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on an analysis of four plastid DNA regions". Taxon. 58: 77–107...
Merwilla is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae). It is distributed...
"Phylogenetic relationships among genera of Massonieae (Hyacinthaceae) inferred from plastid DNA and seed morphology". Journal of Plant Research. 116 (2): 115–132...
monotypic genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae). The only known...
(Hyacinthaceae) in SouthAfrica. 1. Two new species. Bothalia. 28. 10.4102/abc.v28i1.609. 3-Benzyl-4-chromanones (homoisoflavanones) from bulbs of the...
October 1998). "A revision of Ledebouria (Hyacinthaceae) in SouthAfrica. 1. Two new species". Bothalia. 28 (1). SouthAfrican National Biodiversity Institute:...
"Albuca juncifolia Baker". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2023-02-08. Van Jaarsveld, E. (2020). "Albuca HYACINTHACEAE". In Eggli, U.; Nyffeler, R. (eds...
genus Massonia Thunb. Ex Houtt. (Hyacinthaceae: Scilloideae) in the Core Cape Floristic Region". SouthAfrican Journal of Botany. 121: 329–354. doi:10.1016/j...
African National Biodiversity Institute. Retrieved 20 March 2022. Venter, S. (2008). "Synopsis of the genus Ledebouria Roth (Hyacinthaceae) in South Africa"...
(2011), "Albuca annulata sp. nov. (Hyacinthaceae) from the Albany Centre of Endemism, SouthAfrica" (PDF), Nordic Journal of Botany, 29 (6): 696–699, doi:10...
Van Jaarsveld, E. (2020). "Albuca HYACINTHACEAE". In Eggli, U.; Nyffeler, R. (eds.). Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Monocotyledons (2nd ed...
Elephantulus edwardii (Macroscelidea), as a pollinator of the Pagoda lily, Whiteheadia bifolia (Hyacinthaceae)", Springer-Verlag, November 16, 2010. Retrieved...
2020. Coincident isolation of a novel homoisoflavonoid from Resnova humifusa and Eucomis montana (Hyacinthoideae: Hyacinthaceae). Neil A. Koorbanally, Neil...
December 2006). "Three new species of Lachenalia (Hyacinthaceae: Massonieae) from Western and Northern Cape, SouthAfrica". Bothalia. 36 (2): 147–155. doi:10...
phylogenetics of subfamily Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on nuclear and plastid DNA regions, including a new taxonomic arrangement". Annals of Botany...
found in SouthAfrica (KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Provinces) and Eswatini (Swaziland). When in flower in summer, the plant reaches a height of up to...
Zonneveld, B.J.M. & Duncan, G.D. (2010). "Genome sizes of Eucomis L'Hér. (Hyacinthaceae) and a description of the new species Eucomis grimshawii G.D.Duncan &...
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