Biology:Boophone haemanthoides
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
Boophone haemanthoides | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
Genus: | Boophone |
Species: | B. haemanthoides
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Binomial name | |
Boophone haemanthoides F.M. Leighton
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Boophone haemanthoides is a plant species native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces of South Africa .[1] It is a bulb-forming herb with more than half of its scaly bulb appearing above ground. It produces a rather large umbel of pink flowers with narrow tepals.[2][3]
References
- ↑ "Boophone haemanthoides", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=300919, retrieved 2015-08-10
- ↑ Leighton, Frances Margaret. Journal of South African Botany 13: 59. 1947
- ↑ PlantZAfrica.com, Boophone haemanthoides
Wikidata ☰ Q15502902 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boophone haemanthoides.
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