Scadoxus cyrtanthiflorus

Scadoxus cyrtanthiflorus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
clade: Angiosperms
clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Scadoxus
Species: S. cyrtanthiflorus
Binomial name
Scadoxus cyrtanthiflorus
(C.H.Wright) I.Friis & Nordal (1976)[1]
Synonyms

Choananthus cyrtanthiflorus (C.H.Wright) Rendle
Choananthus wollastoni Rendle
Haemanthus cyrtanthiflorus C.H.Wright [2]

Scadoxus cyrtanthiflorus is a herbaceous shrub endemic to the Ruwenzori Mountains of mountains in East tropical Africa.[3] It belongs to the genus Scadoxus and has pendant, tubular blooms[4] S. cyrtanthiflorus is unknown in cultivation.[4]

References

  1. ^ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Details" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=66762-1. Retrieved 2008-05-06. 
  2. ^ "Scadoxus cyrtanthiflorus (C.H.Wright) Friis & Nordal record n° 16305" (HTML). African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=16305. Retrieved 2008-05-07. 
  3. ^ H. Peter Linder and Berit Gehrke (2 March 2006). "Common plants of the Rwenzori, particularly the upper zones" (HTML). Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich. Archived from the original on 2008-05-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20080530005602/http://www.systbot.unizh.ch/datenbanken/rwenzori/Rwenzori_desktop.pdf. Retrieved 2008-05-06. 
  4. ^ a b James E. Shields (2004-01-31). "The Amaryllis Family: Scadoxus" (HTML). http://www.shieldsgardens.com/amaryllids/Scadoxus.html. Retrieved 2008-05-07.