Ornithogalum

Genus: Ornithogalum

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Asparagaceae

About 200 species, native to Africa, Europe and western Asia, with 91 species native to southern Africa and a further species that is cultivated in the region. Previously placed in the family Hyacinthaceae, which has been sunk under the Asparagaceae.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Ornithogalum adseptentrionesvergentulum
Ornithogalum aetfatense
Ornithogalum anguinum
Ornithogalum annae-ameliae
Ornithogalum baurii
Ornithogalum bicornutum
Ornithogalum bolusianum
Ornithogalum britteniae
Ornithogalum campanulatum
Ornithogalum candicans [= Galtonia candicans]
Ornithogalum capillare
Ornithogalum capillifolium
Ornithogalum ceresianum
Ornithogalum ciliiferum
Ornithogalum comptonii
Ornithogalum conicum
Ornithogalum constrictum
Ornithogalum corticatum
Ornithogalum crispifolium
Ornithogalum decusmontium
Ornithogalum deltoideum
Ornithogalum diphyllum
Ornithogalum dolichopharynx
Ornithogalum dregeanum
Ornithogalum dubium
Ornithogalum esterhuyseniae
Ornithogalum falcatum [= Neopatersonia falcata]
Ornithogalum filicaule [= Neopatersonia namaquensis]
Ornithogalum fimbrimarginatum
Ornithogalum fissurisedulum
Ornithogalum flexuosum [= Ornithogalum ornithogaloides]
Ornithogalum geniculatum
Ornithogalum gifbergense
Ornithogalum gracillimum
Ornithogalum graminifolium
Ornithogalum gregorianum
Ornithogalum haalenbergense
Ornithogalum hallii
Ornithogalum hesperanthum
Ornithogalum hispidulum
Ornithogalum hispidum
Ornithogalum inclusum
Ornithogalum juncifolium
Ornithogalum leeupoortense
Ornithogalum lithopsoides
Ornithogalum longicollum
Ornithogalum maculatum
Ornithogalum marlothii
Ornithogalum mater-familias
Ornithogalum monophyllum
Ornithogalum multifolium
Ornithogalum namaquanulum
Ornithogalum nannodes
Ornithogalum naviculum
Ornithogalum neopatersonia [= Neopatersonia uitenhagensis]
Ornithogalum niveum
Ornithogalum oreogenes
Ornithogalum paludosum
Ornithogalum pendens
Ornithogalum perdurans
Ornithogalum perparvum
Ornithogalum petraeum
Ornithogalum pilosum
Ornithogalum princeps [= Galtonia princeps]
Ornithogalum pruinosum
Ornithogalum puberulum
Ornithogalum pullatum
Ornithogalum regale [= Galtonia regalis]
Ornithogalum rogersii
Ornithogalum rossouwii
Ornithogalum rotatum
Ornithogalum rubescens
Ornithogalum rupestre
Ornithogalum sardienii
Ornithogalum saundersiae
Ornithogalum schlechterianum
Ornithogalum sephtonii
Ornithogalum strictum
Ornithogalum subcoriaceum
Ornithogalum synadelphicum
Ornithogalum synanthifolium
Ornithogalum tenuifolium
Ornithogalum thermophilum
Ornithogalum thunbergianulum
Ornithogalum thyrsoides (Chincherinchee)
Ornithogalum tortuosum
Ornithogalum vallis-gratiae
Ornithogalum verae
Ornithogalum viridiflorum [= Galtonia viridiflora]
Ornithogalum xanthochlorum
Ornithogalum zebrinellum

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Ornithogalum arabicum

Native to the Mediterranean.

Publications

Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated plants of southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.
Manning, J.C. and Goldblatt, P. 2006. Ornithogallum kirstenii (Albuca group), a new species from Western Cape, South Africa, and new combinations in the group. Bothalia 36(1): 86-89.