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Genus: Tulbaghia 

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: Alliaceae

There are about 20 species, all African and mainly in southern Africa. 

Southern African species (some)

Tulbaghia acutiloba (Wild Garlic)

Wildeknoffel [Afrikaans]; motsuntsunyane, sefothafotha [South Sotho]; lisela [Swazi]; ishaladi lezinyoka [Zulu]

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 510; Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 270

Tulbaghia affinis

 

Tulbaghia x aliceae

 

Tulbaghia calcaria

 

Tulbaghia cameroni

 

Tulbaghia capensis

Wildeknoffel [Afrikaans]

See West Coast wild flowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 42.

Tulbaghia cepacea

 

Tulbaghia cernua

 

Tulbaghia coddii

 

Tulbaghia cominsii

 

Tulbaghia dregeana

Wildelook, Ajuin [Afrikaans]

See Nieuwoudtville wildflowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 52; Cederberg wild flowers by Gretel van Rooyen & Hester Steyn p. 48

Tulbaghia galpinii

 

Tulbaghia hypoxidea

 

Tulbaghia leucantha (Highland Wild Garlic)

sefothafotha [South Sotho]

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 92; Karoo wildflowers by David Shearing & Katryn van Heerden p. 40

Tulbaghia ludwigiana (Scented Wild Garlic)

ingotjwa, sikwa [Swazi]; umwelela-kweliphesheya [Zulu]

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 510.

Tulbaghia luebbertiana

 

Tulbaghia montana

 

Tulbaghia natalensis (Sweet Wild Garlic, Pink Wild Garlic)

iswele lezinyoka [Zulu]

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 344.

Tulbaghia nutans

 

Tulbaghia pauciflora

 

Tulbaghia simmleri

Tulbaghia simmleri

Tulbaghia tenuior

 

Tulbaghia transvaalensis

 

Tulbaghia verdoornia

 

Tulbaghia violacea (Wild Garlic)

Wildeknoffel [Afrikaans]; isihaqa [Zulu]

Tulbaghia violacea

Publications

  • Burbidge, R.B. 1978. A revision of the genus Tulbaghia (Liliaceae). Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 36,1: 77-103.

 

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