| Author: |
Robert Allen Dyer,
1947 |
| Family: |
HYACINTHACEAE* |
| Origin: |
Transvaal,
Southern Africa (if it is Drimia/Urginavia altissima:
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, Congo,
Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali,
Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,
Zaïre) |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Medium |
| Sun: |
Maximum |
| Thickness: |
15
Centimetres |
| Height: |
25
Centimetres |
| Flower:
|
White |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/Scales |
| Names:
|
- |
| Synonyms: |
Might
be: Urginavia epigea, Franz Speta, 2001.
Drimia barteri Baker.
Drimia altissima, Ker Gawl.
Drimia paolii Chiov.
Drimia uitenhagensis Eckl.
Idothea altissima (L.f.)
Kuntze.
Idothea barteri (Baker)Kuntze.
Ornithogalum altissimum L.f.
Ornithogalum giganteum
Jacq.
Scilla micrantha A.Rich.
Urginavia altissima
(L.f.) Speta.
Urginavia micrantha (A.Rich.) Speta.
Urginea brevipes Baker.
Urginea gigantea (Jacq.)
Oyewole.
Urginea micrantha (A.Rich.) Solms.
And
Urginavia
altissima, Franz Speta, 1998 - I'm afraid. |
This member of the
Hyacinthaceae family was described by Robert Allen Dyer in 1947. It
is found in Transvaal, South Africa, growing in a well drained soil
with some water and lots of sun. The bulb will grow to 15
centimetres in diameter, the whole plant up to 25 centimetres in height,
and the white flower one meter.
The genera name after Johannes
Heinrich Ursinus, 1608-1667, a German author, scholar, Lutheran
theologian, humanist and dean of Regensburg. The species name means
'on the earth', for its trailing habit.
*)Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Hyacinthaceae
is
now part of
the Asparagaceae. |
