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Family: Liliaceae Life
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> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Liliales
Sixteen genera and 635 species (mainly north temperate
regions). Liliaceae used to include a broad range of genera but it has been
split into a large number of different families and what remains in the
Liliaceae does not include any species native to southern Africa. However one
genus and species is naturalised and
at least three genera and 11 species are cultivated in the region.
Genera naturalised in southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
Genera cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002). Species names are provided in genera
with only one species cultivated in souithern Africa.
Erythronium tuolumnense
Native to California. |
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Gagea fistulosa
Indigenous from southern Europe to Iran. |
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Tricyrtis
Two species cultivated - Tricyrtis formosana and Tricyrtis hirta
(Japanese toad lily). |
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Tulipa (tulips)
Not included in Glen (2002) but surely tulips have been cultivated in
southern Africa? |
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