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Genus: Chlorophytum
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> Family: Asparagaceae
About 165 species, found in Africa, Madagascar and Asia.
Fifty-seven species are native to southern Africa. This genus was previously in
the Anthericaceae, then the Agavaceae and now both the latter families have been
sunk under Asparagaceae.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of Zimbabwe and
Flora of Mozambique.
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Chlorophytum acutum |
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Chlorophytum affine
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum anceps |
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Chlorophytum andongense
Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Chlorophytum angulicaule |
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Chlorophytum aridum |
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Chlorophytum blepharophyllum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum bowkeri
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Chlorophytum brachystachyum |
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Chlorophytum brevipes
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum calyptrocarpum |
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Chlorophytum cameronii Recorded
from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Chlorophytum capense |
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Chlorophytum colubrinum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum
comosum (Hen and Chickens, Spider Plant) |
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Chlorophytum cooperi |
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Chlorophytum crassinerve |
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Chlorophytum crispum |
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Chlorophytum cyperaceum |
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Chlorophytum fasciculatum |
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Chlorophytum floribundum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum gallabatense
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum galpinii |
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Chlorophytum graniticola
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum haygarthii |
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Chlorophytum krauseanum |
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Chlorophytum krookianum |
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Chlorophytum leptoneurum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum lewisiae |
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Chlorophytum longifolium |
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Chlorophytum macrophyllum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum macrosporum |
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Chlorophytum modestum |
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Chlorophytum monophyllum |
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Chlorophytum namaquense |
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Chlorophytum nidulans
Recorded from Mozambique. |
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Chlorophytum pauciphyllum |
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Chlorophytum pauper |
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Chlorophytum polystachyum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum psammophilum |
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Chlorophytum pusillum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum pygmaeum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum radula |
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Chlorophytum rangei |
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Chlorophytum recurvifolium |
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Chlorophytum rigidum |
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Chlorophytum saundersiae |
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Chlorophytum silvaticum
Recorded from Zimbabwe. |
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Chlorophytum sphacelatum |
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Chlorophytum stolzii
Recorded from Mozambique. |
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Chlorophytum subpetiolatum
Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Chlorophytum transvaalense |
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Chlorophytum trichophlebium |
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Chlorophytum triflorum |
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Chlorophytum undulatum |
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Chlorophytum vestitum
Recorded from Mozambique. |
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Chlorophytum viscosum |
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Publications
- Kativu, S. 1993. Four new species of Chlorophytum
(Anthericaceae) from tropical Africa. Nordic Journal of
Botany 13: 501–505.
- Kativu, S. 1994. The identity of Chlorophytum sphacelatum
(Anthericaceae) and its range of variation
in the Flora zambesiaca area. Kirkia 15: 38–42.
- Kativu, S. 1994. Synopsis of Chlorophytum
(Anthericidae) in the Flora zambesiaca area. Kirkia 15(1):
43-111.
- Kativu, S. & Nordal, I. 1993. New combinations in the
African species of Chlorophytum (Anthericaceae).
Nordic Journal of Botany 13: 59–65.
- Nordal, I., Kativu, S. & Poulsen, A.D. 1997. Flora of
tropical East Africa. Anthericaceae: 1-67.
- Obermeyer, A.A. 1962. A revision of the South Africa species
of Anthericum, Chlorophytum and Trachyandra.
Bothalia 7: 670-711.
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