Boophone

Boophone
	Inflorescence of Boophone disticha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Subkingdom:	Tracheobionta
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Subclass:	Liliidae
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Tribe:	Amaryllideae
Subtribe:	Boophoninae
Genus:	Boophone; Herb., Appendix: 18 (1821).
Species
	Ver texto
Synonyms
	Buphane Herb.; Boophane Herb.;

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 scientific 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.

^ 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. This proposal was accepted in 2002 (Richard K. Brummitt. 2002. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 53. Taxon, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Nov., 2002), pp. 795-799.
^ Vigneron, P. (2000-2006). [www.amaryllidaceae.org/Boophone/index.htm Boophone "Boophone"]. Amaryllidaceae organization. Retrieved 2009-5-26. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. World Checklist of Monocotyledons: Boophone . Accessed May 16 2009.

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