1223.000 Beschorneria Kunth

Robust perennial succulents; usually acaulescent; spreading freely via rhizomes. Leaves in a large rosette; blades usually lanceolate, fleshy with entire margins; terminal spike absent. Inflorescence very large, erect; upper half usually paniculate with flowers which are pendulous in clusters along the inflorescence; bracts colourful. Flowers tubular, green or red with 6 erect perianth segments; ovary inferior. Fruit a capsule.

Derivation of name: after Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Beschorner, 1806–73, German botanist.

Worldwide: 8 species in Central and South Mexico.

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.