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Cybistetes longifolia

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: Amaryllidaceae

Cybistetes longifolia Cybistetes longifolia

Cybistetes longifolia under cultivation in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. [photos H. Robertson, Iziko ©]

The only species in the genus. Indigenous to the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Namibia.

 

See West Coast wild flowers by John Manning & Peter Goldblatt p. 44.

 

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