990.000 Chlorophytum
ANTHERICUM L.
DASYSTACHYS Baker
Description of the genus
Perennial herbs, Roots either swollen without tuber or ± wiry with distinct tubers. Pedicels mostly articulated, usually with more than 1 at each node, less often with 1 and then supported by 2 bracts. Flowers open, star-shaped, urceolate to ± campanulate. Stamens straight or declinate. Ovary sessile, rarely stipitate. Capsule trigonous to deeply 3-lobed in cross-section. Seeds flat or sharply folded. Worldwide: 215 species, especially in Africa and India Zambia: 53 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| affine Baker var. affine | N,W,E | Description, Image |
| affine Baker var. curviscapum (Poelln.) Hanid | N,W,E | Description, Image |
| africanum (Baker) Engl. | N,W | |
| amplexicaule Baker | N,W | |
| andongense Baker | B,N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| blepharophyllum Baker subsp. blepharophyllum | B,N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| blepharophyllum Baker subsp. pendulum Hoell & Nordal | B | |
| blepharophyllum Baker subsp. rubropygmaeum Bjorå & Nordal | N | |
| brachystachyum Baker | N,S | Description, Image |
| bulbinifolium Hoell & Nordal | N | |
| calyptrocarpum (Baker) Kativu | W,C | Description, Image |
| cameronii (Baker) Kativu var. cameronii | N,W,E,S | |
| cameronii (Baker) Kativu var. pterocaulon (Baker) Nordal | N,W,E | Description, Image |
| clarae Bjorå & Nordal | N | |
| colubrinum (Baker) Engl. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| comosum (Thunb.) Jacq. | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| delicatulum Osborne, Vollesen & Bjora [End] | C | |
| fischeri (Baker) Baker | N,C | |
| floribundum Baker | B,N,C,E,S | |
| gallabatense Schweinf. ex Baker | B,N,W,C | Description |
| galpinii (Baker) Kativu var. norlindhii (Weim.) Kativu | B | |
| galpinii (Baker) Kativu var. matabelense (Baker) Kativu | W,E,S | Description, Image |
| galpinii (Baker) Kativu [Agg] | B,W,E,S | Description, Image |
| geophilum Poelln. | B,N | |
| hysteranthum Kativu | W | |
| lancifolium Welw. ex Baker | N,W | |
| leptoneurum (C.H. Wright) Poelln. | B,N,W,C | Description, Image |
| longifolium Schweinf. ex Baker | B,C,S | Description, Image |
| macrophyllum (A. Rich.) Asch. | W,C | Description, Image |
| macrorrhizum Poelln. | N,W | |
| minor Kativu [End] [DD] | N | Description, Image |
| nidulans (Baker) Brenan | N | |
| nubicum (Baker) Kativu | N,C | |
| nyasae (Rendle) Kativu | E | Description, Image |
| pauper Poelln. | B,W,S | Description |
| perfoliatum Kativu | N,W | Image |
| polystachys Baker | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| pubiflorum Baker | N,S | Description, Image |
| pusillum Schweinf. ex Baker | N,W,S | Description, Image |
| recurvifolium (Baker) C. Archer & Kativu | N | Description, Image |
| ruahense Engl. | W | |
| rubribracteatum (De Wild.) Kativu | N,W,C | |
| silvaticum Dammer | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu var. hockii (De Wild.) Nordal | B,N | Description, Image |
| sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu var. sphacelatum | N,W,S | |
| sphacelatum (Baker) Kativu var. milanjianum (Rendle) Nordal | B,N,S | Description, Image |
| stenopetalum Baker | N,W,C | |
| stolzii (K. Krause) Kativu | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| subpetiolatum (Baker) Kativu | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| velutinum Kativu | N,W,C,E | |
| vestitum Baker | N,W | |
| zambiense Bjorå & Nordal | N,C,S | |
| zingiberastrum Nordal & A.D. Poulsen | N,W,E |
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