Boophone haemanthoides

Boophone haemanthoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Boophone
Species: B. haemanthoides
Binomial name
Boophone haemanthoides
F.M. Leighton

Boophone haemanthoides is a plant species native to Namibia and South Africa. 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.[1][2]

References

  1. Leighton, Frances Margaret. Journal of South African Botany 13: 59. 1947
  2. Plantz Africa, Boophone haemanthoides