Family: Hemerocallidaceae

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There are 19 genera and 85 species (widely distributed but not indigenous to the Americas), of which one genus and two species are indigenous to southern Africa.  An additional three genera and seven species are cultivated in the region.

Genera indigenous to southern Africa

Information from Meyer (2000).

Caesia Twelve species: 9 in Australia, 1 in Madagascar and 2 in southern Africa. The genus used to be included in the Anthericaceae, a family that is no longer recognised.

Other genera, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002), where these genera are placed under Liliaceae.

Dianella Three species cultivated.
Hemerocallis Indigenous to Europe, China, Japan and Korea. Cultivated for their flowers, including in gardens in southern Africa. At least three species cultivated in southern Africa.
Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax) Indigenous to New Zealand.

Publications

• Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated plants of southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.

• Meyer, N.L. 2000. Anthericaceae. In: Seed Plants of Southern Africa: Families and Genera (Ed. O.A. Leistner). Strelitzia 10. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, pp. 576-577.