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Family: Colchicaceae Life
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There are 17 genera and 170 species, found in the Old
World, with 12 genera and 67 species indigenous to southern Africa.
Genera indigenous to southern Africa
List from Meyer (2000).
Androcymbium About 40 species, mainly
African but one species also in the Mediterranean regon. There are about 28
species in southern Africa. |
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Baeometra One species: Baeometra
uniflora, found in the Western Cape. |
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Camptorrhiza One species: Camptorrhiza
strumosa, found in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland,
and the northern parts of South Africa. |
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Gloriosa About 6 closely related species
found in Africa and Asia. The one species in southern Africa is Gloriosa
superba. |
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Hexacyrtis One species: Hexacyrtis
dickiana, found in Namibia. |
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Iphigenia About 15 species, found in
Africa, Madagascar, India, Australia and New Zealand. Iphigenia
bechuanica is the only species in southern Africa, found in Namibia,
Botswana, Northern Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal. |
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Littonia Eight species, found in Africa
and the Arabian Peninsula. There are two species in southern Africa. |
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Neodregea One species: Neodregea
glassii, found in Western and Eastern Cape. |
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Onixotis Four species of which 2 are
found in the southern Africa, in the Western Cape. |
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Ornithoglossum Eight species, found in
tropical and southern Africa and all occurring in southern Africa. |
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Sandersonia One species: Sandersonia
aurantiaca: found in Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern
Cape. |
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Wurmbea About 37 species, found in
Australia (19 species) and southern Africa (18 species). |
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There are no recorded additional, exotic, genera cultivated
in southern Africa.
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