Tulbaghia L. 1771, conserved name not Heister 1755
Synonyms[1]
Omentaria Salisb. (1866)
PrototulbaghiaVosa (2007)
Tulbaghia simmleri
Tulbaghia (wild garlic[2] or society garlic) is a genus of monocotyledonous herbaceous perennial bulbs native to Africa,[3] belonging to the amaryllis family. It is one of only two known genera in the society garlic tribe within the onion subfamily.[4]
The genus was named for Ryk Tulbagh (1699–1771), one time governor of The Cape of Good Hope.[5]
Most species are native to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. As is common to many members of the Allioideae, when their leaves are bruised they produce a distinct garlic smell, hence its common name. The flowers are borne in an umbel. Each flower has six narrow tepals. A characteristic of the genus is that there is a "corona" – a raised crown-like structure – at the centre of the flower. This may be small and scale-like or may be larger, somewhat like the trumpet of a small narcissus.[6]
Species[3][7]
Tulbaghia acutiloba Harv. – Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa
Tulbaghia aequinoctialis Welw. ex Baker – Angola
Tulbaghia alliacea L.f., syn. Tulbaghia affinis – Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa
Tulbaghia verdoornia Vosa & R.B.Burb. – Cape Province
Tulbaghia violacea Harv. – Society garlic[8] – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal; naturalized in Tanzania + Mexico
formerly included[3]
A few names have been coined using the name Tulbaghia, but applied to species now considered better suited to the genus Agapanthus.
Tulbaghia africana – Agapanthus africanus
Tulbaghia heisteri – Agapanthus africanus
Tulbaghia minor – Agapanthus africanus
Tulbaghia praecox – Agapanthus praecox
^Tulbaghia L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
^USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tulbaghia". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
^ abcWorld Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2011-11-13, search for "Tulbaghia"
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pollinators for the fynbos, such as the mountain pride butterfly (Aeropetes tulbaghia) which only visits red flowers such as Disa uniflora and pollinates 15...
of all the orchids, involving the mountain pride butterfly, Aeropetes tulbaghia. The Mountain Club of South Africa, the Western Province Rugby Team and...
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pressure "by acting as an ACE inhibitor." Of the 16 plants, only one (Tulbaghia violacea) showed promise. It then was tested on rats and "demonstrated...
which represented nearly all the Alliaceae genera (i.e. except Allium and Tulbaghia), implicitly recognised that it was composed of two groups or tribes,...
red colour is an adaptation to a pollinator, the butterfly Aeropetes tulbaghia. Some Nerine species from Eastern Cape Province are naturally rare, but...
Bernhard RA (1968). "Product inhibition of the cysteine sulfoxide lyase of tulbaghia violacea". Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 127: 252–258. doi:10.1016/0003-9861(68)90223-3...
Fusarium fungus that attacks their cones. The mountain is also home to Tulbaghia coddii, range-restricted species, which has lost much of its habitat to...
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