Boophone
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| Genus: | Boophone Herb.,
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Boophone is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis familiy (Amaryllidaceae). It consists of two species distributed in Tropical and Southern Africa. It is closely related with Crossyne, a genus whose species have postrate leaves. [2]
Species
The list of Bophone species, with their complete name, authority, amd geographic distribution is given below.[3]
- Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb., Bot. Mag. 52: t. 2578 (1825). Distributed from Sudan to South Africa.
- Boophone haemanthoides F.M.Leight., J. S. African Bot. 13: 59 (1947). Distributed from Namibia to the Western Cape Province.
References
- ^ William Herbert wrote the name of this genus with three different ortographies: "Boophane" in 1821; "Buphane" and Buphone" in 1825, and he conserved "Boophone" in 1837. Several authors since then especulated about the ethymology and associated orthography of each name, but a proposal was published in 2001 (R. H. Archer, R. K. Brummitt, D. A. Snijman. 2001. Proposal to conserve the name Boophone Herbert with that spelling (Amaryllidaceae) Taxon, ISSN 0040-0262, Vol. 50, Nº 2, pags. 569-572) to conserve the first name and to take the laters as synonyms
- ^ Boophone
- ^ Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. World Checklist of Monocotyledons: Acis . Accessed May 16 2009.
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