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Genus of flowering plants
Tulbaghia simmleri
Tulbaghia (wild garlic
[2] or society garlic ) is a
genus of
monocotyledonous
herbaceous
perennial
bulbs
native to Africa,
[3] belonging to the
amaryllis family . It is one of only two known genera in the
society garlic tribe within the
onion subfamily .
[4]
The genus was named for
Ryk Tulbagh (1699–1771), one time governor of The Cape of Good Hope.
[5]
Most species are native to the
Eastern Cape Province of
South Africa . As is common to many members of the Allioideae, when their leaves are bruised they produce a distinct
garlic smell, hence its common name. The flowers are borne in an
umbel . Each flower has six narrow
tepals . A characteristic of the genus is that there is a "corona" – a raised crown-like structure – at the centre of the flower. This may be small and scale-like or may be larger, somewhat like the trumpet of a small
narcissus .
[6]
Species
[3]
[7]
Tulbaghia acutiloba Harv. – Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa
Tulbaghia aequinoctialis Welw. ex Baker – Angola
Tulbaghia alliacea L.f. , syn. Tulbaghia affinis – Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa
Tulbaghia calcarea Engl. & Krause – Namibia
Tulbaghia cameronii Baker – Cameroon, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
Tulbaghia capensis L. – Cape Province
Tulbaghia cernua Fisch. – Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa
Tulbaghia coddii Vosa & R.B.Burb. – Mpumalanga
Tulbaghia cominsii Vosa – Cape Province
Tulbaghia dregeana Kunth – Cape Province
Tulbaghia friesii Suess. – Nyanga Mountains of Mozambique + Zimbabwe
Tulbaghia galpinii Schltr. – Cape Province
Tulbaghia leucantha Baker – Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
Tulbaghia ludwigiana Harv. – Eswatini, South Africa
Tulbaghia luebbertiana Engl. & Krause – Namibia
Tulbaghia macrocarpa Vosa – Zimbabwe
Tulbaghia montana Vosa – Cape Province
Tulbaghia natalensis Baker – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal
Tulbaghia nutans Vosa – Mpumalanga
Tulbaghia pretoriensis Vosa & Condy – Gauteng
Tulbaghia rhodesica R.E.Fr. – Tanzania, Zambia
Tulbaghia simmleri Beauverd – Northern Province
Tulbaghia tenuior K.Krause & Dinter – Cape Province, Namibia
Tulbaghia transvaalensis Vosa – Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal
Tulbaghia verdoornia Vosa & R.B.Burb. – Cape Province
Tulbaghia violacea Harv. – Society garlic
[8] – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal; naturalized in Tanzania + Mexico
formerly included
[3]
A few names have been coined using the name Tulbaghia , but applied to species now considered better suited to the genus
Agapanthus .
^
Tulbaghia L.
Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 29 September 2023.
^
USDA, NRCS (n.d.).
"Tulbaghia " . The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov) . Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 12 December 2015 .
^
a
b
c
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families , The Board of Trustees of the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , retrieved 2011-11-13 , search for "Tulbaghia"
^ Stevens, P.F.,
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Allioideae
^ Gledhill, D. (1994), The Names of Plants , Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
ISBN
978-0-521-36675-5 , p. 189
^ Armitage, James (August 2007), "Time for Tulbaghia ", The Garden , 136 (8): 524–527
^
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Red List of South African Plants, search for Tulbaghia
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Tulbaghia violacea on Floridata
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