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| Family : COLCHICACEAE |
Protologue : Sp. Pl. 1: 305 (1753)  |
| Information on the genus : Gloriosa |
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Status
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| Status for MA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Gloriosa superba L. var. superba |
| Eugone superba (L.) Salisb. |
| Methonica superba (L.) Crantz |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Gloriosa abyssinica A. Rich. |
| =Methonica abyssinica (A. Rich.) Walp. |
| =Methonica doniana (Schult. & Schult. f.) Kunth (1843) |
| =Methonica leopoldii Van Houtte ex Lem. |
| =Methonica plantii Planch. |
| =Methonica platyphylla Klotzsch |
| =Gloriosa virescens Lindl. |
| =Methonica virescens (Lindl.) Kunth |
| =Gloriosa aurea f. latifolia Chiov. |
| =Gloriosa aurea f. angustifolia Chiov. |
| =Gloriosa aurea Chiov. |
| =Gloriosa carsonii Baker (1895) |
| =Gloriosa graminifolia var. heterophylla Chiov. |
| =Gloriosa simplex L. |
| =Methonica grandiflora Hook. (1860) |
| =Gloriosa superba var. angustifolia Baker (1879) |
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| Taxon infra-specific |
| Gloriosa superba L. var. superba |
| Gloriosa superba var. graminifolia (Franch.) Hoenselaar (2005) |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Herb erect, simple or branched, sometimes less than 40 cm tall, or scandent or climbing to c. 3 m long; corm to 7x1,5 cm, elongated, often forked; leaves alternate, sometimes opposite or verticillate and somewhat clustered; blade from linear to ovate, 6-17,5x0,4-5 cm, apex acute, falcate, or ending in a tendril to 7 cm long; flowers axillary, sometimes terminal, solitary, cream, yellow, red, red or purple-brown with yellow margin, etc.; pedicel erect, recurved apically, 3,5-18 cm long; perianth segments reflexed, narrowly elliptic-linear to ovate, 2,9-8,5x0,4-3,8 cm, margins sometimes crisped, apex acuminate to acute, sometimes falcate; capsule 3,7-5x1-1,4 cm; seeds many, red. |
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| Ecology : |
Open sandy plains, fully exposed; stony or rocky grounds; farmbush; open bushland (Commiphora, Acacia); roadsides; forest edges; thickets; woodland; cultivated land; semi-desert plains; short grassland; rain-forest; dry bush; Combretum, Terminalia woodland; along ditches; open places in forest; deep-grassed wooded meadows on river banks with Epilobium, Salix, Faurea; weed in garden; wooded rather damp slopes; savannas; forest edges; riparian and inundated forests; on volcanic ashes; often abundant; marigots; fallows; sandy-clayey hollows; 5-c. 2300 m alt. |
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Extremely variable (see introductory discussion of Gloriosa above). Mathew gives a summary of various “species” in Bulb. Newsl. 13: 9-12, 1996. |
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Bioko/Fernando Poo; Namibia-Caprivi Strip, Botswana, S. Africa, Swaziland; Madagascar, Seychelles; Yemen, India to Lesser Sunda Isl. |
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| Biol./Eco : |
Herb, Liana, Geophyte; Humid, Subhumid, Dry, Subarid; Grassland, Thicket, Forest, Inselberg/Rock Face, Anthropic; 0-499 m, 500-999 m, 1000-1499 m; distribution: Africa. Asia, New World, |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and south Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under African Plants - a Photo Guide |
| see under chg |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under Fgui |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Catalogue de Madagascar |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
| see under Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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| Map |
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 Gloriosa superba L. Gloriosa superba L.; Madagascar, Beanka, partie nord; num.coll.: RFB 151; photo: Bolliger, R.F., R.M. Hanitrarivo & B.F.L. Rakotoz  Gloriosa superba L. Gloriosa superba L.; Madagascar, Beanka, partie nord; num.coll.: RFB 151; photo: Bolliger, R.F., R.M. Hanitrarivo & B.F.L. Rakotoz  Gloriosa superba L. Gloriosa superba L.; Madagascar, Beanka, partie nord; num.coll.: RFB 151; photo: Bolliger, R.F., R.M. Hanitrarivo & B.F.L. Rakotoz
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| Record n°183263 modified 2007-04-02 |
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