Tulbaghia

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Society garlic
Tulbaghia (Society Garlic).jpg
Tulbaghia violacea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Tribe: Tulbaghieae
Genus: Tulbaghia
L. 1771, conserved name not Heister 1755
Synonyms[1]

Omentaria Salisb.

Tulbaghia simmleri

Tulbaghia (wild garlic[2] or society garlic) is a genus of monocotyledonous herbaceous perennial bulbs native to Africa,[1] belonging to the Amaryllis family. It is one of only two known genera in the society garlic tribe within the onion subfamily.[3] The genus was named for Ryk Tulbagh (1699–1771), one time governor of The Cape of Good Hope.[4]

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.[5]

Species[1][6]
  1. Harv. – Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa
  2. Tulbaghia aequinoctialis Welw. ex Baker – Angola
  3. L.f., syn. Tulbaghia affinis – Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa
  4. Engl. & Krause – Namibia
  5. Baker – Cameroon, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
  6. L. – Cape Province
  7. Fisch. – Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa
  8. Vosa & R.B.Burb. – Mpumalanga
  9. Vosa – Cape Province
  10. Kunth – Cape Province
  11. Suess. – Nyanga Mountains of Mozambique + Zimbabwe
  12. Schltr. – Cape Province
  13. Tulbaghia leucantha Baker – Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
  14. Harv. – Swaziland, South Africa
  15. Engl. & Krause – Namibia
  16. Vosa – Zimbabwe
  17. Vosa – Cape Province
  18. Tulbaghia natalensis Baker – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal
  19. Vosa – Mpumalanga
  20. Vosa & Condy – Gauteng
  21. R.E.Fr. – Tanzania, Zambia
  22. Tulbaghia simmleri Beauverd – Northern Province
  23. K.Krause & Dinter – Cape Province, Namibia
  24. Vosa – Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal
  25. Vosa & R.B.Burb. – Cape Province
  26. Tulbaghia violacea Harv. – Society garlic[7] – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal; naturalized in Tanzania + Mexico
formerly included[1]

A few names have been coined using the name Tulbaghia, but applied to species now considered better suited to the genus Agapanthus.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2011-11-13, search for "Tulbaghia"
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tulbaghia". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  3. ^ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Allioideae
  4. ^ Gledhill, D. (1994), The Names of Plants, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-36675-5, p. 189
  5. ^ Armitage, James (August 2007), "Time for Tulbaghia", The Garden, 136 (8): 524–527
  6. ^ South African National Biodiversity Institute, Red List of South African Plants, search for Tulbaghia
  7. ^ Tulbaghia violacea on Floridata


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