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Family: Colchicaceae Life
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Fifteen genera and 245 species, native to the Old
World, with eight genera and 85 species native to southern Africa.
Genera native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of Zimbabwe
and Flora of Mozambique.
Baeometra One species:
Baeometra
uniflora, endemic to the Western Cape. |
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Camptorrhiza One species:
Camptorrhiza
strumosa, native to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland,
and the northern parts of South Africa. |
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Colchicum
About 150 species, 49 of which are native to southern Africa. |
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Gloriosa
Nine species, of which three are native to southern Africa. |
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Hexacyrtis One species:
Hexacyrtis
dickiana, native to Namibia. |
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Iphigenia One species
native to southern Africa: Iphigenia
oliveri. |
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Ornithoglossum Eight species,
native to
tropical and southern Africa and all occurring in southern Africa. |
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Sandersonia One species:
Sandersonia
aurantiaca: native to Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern
Cape. |
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Wurmbea
[= Iphigenia] About 40 species, native to
Australia (19 species) and southern Africa (21 species). |
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