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990.000 Chlorophytum
ANTHERICUM L.
DASYSTACHYS Baker
Description of the genus
Perennial herbs, Roots either swollen without tuber or ± wiry with distinct tubers. Pedicels mostly articulated, usually with more than 1 at each node, less often with 1 and then supported by 2 bracts. Flowers open, star-shaped, urceolate to ± campanulate. Stamens straight or declinate. Ovary sessile, rarely stipitate. Capsule trigonous to deeply 3-lobed in cross-section. Seeds flat or sharply folded. Worldwide: 215 species, especially in Africa and India Zimbabwe: 32 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| affine Baker var. curviscapum (Poelln.) Hanid | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| anceps (Baker) Kativu | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| andongense Baker | N,C,E | Description, Image |
| blepharophyllum Baker subsp. blepharophyllum | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| bowkeri Baker | C,E | Description, Image |
| brachystachyum Baker | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| calyptrocarpum (Baker) Kativu | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| cameronii (Baker) Kativu var. pterocaulon (Baker) Nordal | W | Description, Image |
| colubrinum (Baker) Engl. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| comosum (Thunb.) Jacq. | N,W,E | Description, Image |
| fasciculatum (Baker) Kativu | C | |
| floribundum Baker | N | |
| gallabatense Schweinf. ex Baker | N,C,E,S | Description |
| galpinii (Baker) Kativu[Agg] | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| galpinii (Baker) Kativu var. galpinii | W,C,S | |
| galpinii (Baker) Kativu var. matabelense (Baker) Kativu | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| galpinii (Baker) Kativu var. norlindhii (Weim.) Kativu | N,C,E | |
| graniticola Kativu | N | |
| leptoneurum (C.H. Wright) Poelln. | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| longifolium Schweinf. ex Baker | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| macrophyllum (A. Rich.) Asch. | N,E,S | Description, Image |
| macrosporum Baker | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| pauper Poelln. | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| polystachys Baker | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| pusillum Schweinf. ex Baker | N,E | Description, Image |
| pygmaeum (Weim.) Kativu subsp. pygmaeum [End][LR-nt] | E | Description |
| pygmaeum (Weim.) Kativu subsp. rhodesianum (Rendle) Kativu[NrEnd][LR-nt] | E | Description, Image |
| recurvifolium (Baker) C. Archer & Kativu | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| silvaticum Dammer | N,C | Description, Image |
| sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu var. milanjianum (Rendle) Nordal | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| subpetiolatum (Baker) Kativu | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| transvaalense (Baker) Kativu | E | Description, Image |
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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Chlorophytum
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): ChlorophytumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Chlorophytum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Chlorophytum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Chlorophytum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Chlorophytum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Chlorophytum
JSTOR Plant Science: Chlorophytum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Chlorophytum
Plants of the World Online: Chlorophytum
Tropicos: Chlorophytum
Wikipedia: Chlorophytum
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