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Family: Liliaceae Life
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> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Liliales
Sixteen genera and 635 species (mainly north temperate
regions). Liliaceae used to include a broad range of genera but it has been
split into a large number of different families and what remains in the
Liliaceae does not include any species indigenous to southern Africa. However,
at least four genera and 11 species are cultivated in the region.
Genera cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002). Species names are provided in genera
with only one species cultivated in souithern Africa.
Erythronium tuolumnense
Indigenous to California. |
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Gagea fistulosa
Indigenous from southern Europe to Iran. |
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Liliuim
Seven species and at least one hybrid cultivated. Lilium formosanum (St Joseph’s
lily, Trumpet lily, Formosa lily, Sintjosefslelie, Trompetlelie) is a
declared Category 3 invasive plant
in South Africa. |
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Tricyrtis
Two species cultivated. |
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Tulipa (tulips)
Not included in Glen (2002) but surely tulips have been cultivated in
southern Africa? |
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