Scadoxus
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| Scadoxus puniceus | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| clade: | Angiosperms |
| clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
| Genus: | Scadoxus Raf. |
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Scadoxus is a genus of 9 species native to tropical Africa in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.[1] The genus has close affinities with Haemanthus from which it has only recently been separated.
Species in the genus are
- S. cinnabarinus (Decne.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West and Central Africa
- S. cyrtanthiflorus (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Ruwenzori mountains between Zaire and Uganda
- S. longifolius (De Wild. & Th.Dur.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West Africa
- S. membranaceus (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - South Africa
- S. multiflorus Rafin. Blood Lily
- ssp. multiflorus - Senegal and southern Arabia in the north down to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
- ssp. katherinae (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - southern Africa
- ssp. longitubus (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West Africa
- S. nutans (I.Friis & Bjrnst.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Ethiopia
- S. pole-evansii (Oberm.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Zimbabwe
- S. pseudocaulus (Bjrnst. & I.Friis) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Tropical Africa
- S. puniceus (L.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - South Africa, Tanzania and Ethiopia
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