Genus: Dierama (hairbells)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Iridaceae

The 44 species are found mainly in the summer rainfall region of eastern southern Africa, but the overall distribution extends from Knysna in the Western Cape, South Africa, to Ethiopia. Thirty-nine species are native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Dierama adelphicum
Dierama ambiguum
Dierama argyreum
Dierama atrum
Dierama cooperi
Dierama dissimile
Dierama dracomontanum
Dierama dubium
Dierama elatum
Dierama erectum
Dierama floriferum
Dierama formosum
Dierama galpinii
Dierama gracile
Dierama grandiflorum
Dierama igneum
Dierama insigne
Dierama inyangense Native to the eastern border mountains of Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique. See Flora of Zimbabwe.
Dierama jucundum
Dierama latifolium
Dierama luteoalbidum
Dierama medium
Dierama mobile
Dierama mossii
Dierama nebrownii
Dierama nixonianum
Dierama pallidum
Dierama pauciflorum
Dierama pendulum
Dierama pictum
Dierama plowesii Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Dierama pulcherrimum
Dierama pumilum
Dierama reynoldsii
Dierama robustum
Dierama sertum
Dierama trichorhizum
Dierama tyrium
Dierama tysonii

The flowers are pollinated by bees (Goldblatt and Manning 2000).

Publications (by date)

• Hilliard, O.M., Burtt, B.L., & Batten, A. 1991. Dierama, Hairbells of Africa. Acorn Press, Johannesburg.

• Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. 2000. Iridaceae. In: In: Seed Plants of Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). Strelitzia 10: 623-638. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.