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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 Malawi: 37 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| affine Baker var. curviscapum (Poelln.) Hanid | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| affine Baker var. affine | N | Description, Image |
| andongense Baker | N,S | Description, Image |
| blepharophyllum Baker subsp. blepharophyllum | N,S | Description |
| brachystachyum Baker | C,S | Description, Image |
| cameronii (Baker) Kativu var. pterocaulon (Baker) Nordal | N,S | Description, Image |
| cameronii (Baker) Kativu var. cameronii | N,C | |
| chelindaensis Kativu & Nordal[End][VU] | N | |
| colubrinum (Baker) Engl. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| comosum (Thunb.) Jacq. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| fischeri (Baker) Baker | N | |
| floribundum Baker | N,C | |
| gallabatense Schweinf. ex Baker | N,S | Description |
| galpinii (Baker) Kativu var. matabelense (Baker) Kativu | S | Description, Image |
| geophilum Poelln. | N,C | |
| leptoneurum (C.H. Wright) Poelln. | N,C | Description, Image |
| macrophyllum (A. Rich.) Asch. | N,C | Description, Image |
| macrorrhizum Poelln. | N | |
| nidulans (Baker) Brenan | N,C,S | |
| nubicum (Baker) Kativu | N,C,S | |
| nyasae (Rendle) Kativu | N,S | Description, Image |
| paucinervatum (Poelln.) Nordal | S | |
| perfoliatum Kativu | N | Image |
| polystachys Baker | C | Description, Image |
| pubiflorum Baker | N,C | Description, Image |
| pusillum Schweinf. ex Baker | C,S | Description, Image |
| rubribracteatum (De Wild.) Kativu | N,C | |
| silvaticum Dammer | N | Description, Image |
| sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu var. hockii (De Wild.) Nordal | N | Description, Image |
| sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu var. sphacelatum | N | |
| sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu var. milanjianum (Rendle) Nordal | N,S | Description, Image |
| stenopetalum Baker | N,S | |
| stolzii (K. Krause) Kativu | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| subpetiolatum (Baker) Kativu | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| velutinum Kativu | N,C | |
| vestitum Baker | N | |
| zingiberastrum Nordal & A.D. Poulsen | N,C |
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Flora of Rwanda: Chlorophytum
Flora of Zambia: Chlorophytum
Flora of Zimbabwe: Chlorophytum
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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