Boophone disticha
Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb.
English: bushman poison bulb, candelabra flower, Cape poison, Cape poison bulb, Cape poison bush, century plant, fan leaved boophane, kaffir onion, poison bulb, red posy, sore eye flower, tumbleweed
distichus,-a,-um;
ID recognized genus:
9277
recognized genus:
Boophone Herb.
ID species:
150523 | wfo-0000761937 | 60455694-2
ID basionym:
51448
published in:
ID publication:
volume:
52
ID volume:

homotypic synonyms:
Amaryllis disticha L.f.; Brunsvigia disticha (L.f.) Sweet; Haemanthus distichus (L.f.) L.f. ex Savage;
heterotypic synonyms:
Amaryllis toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) D.Dietr.; Boophone intermedia M. Roemer; Boophone longipedicellata Pax; Boophone toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) Herb.; Brunsvigia ciliaris (L.) Ker Gawl.; Brunsvigia rautanenii Baker; Brunsvigia toxicaria (L.f. ex Aiton) Ker Gawl.; Haemanthus ciliaris L.; Haemanthus lemairei De Wild.; Haemanthus robustus Pax; Haemanthus sinuatus Schultes & Schultes f.; Haemanthus toxicarius L.f. ex Aiton;

protologue: Bot. Mag. 52: t. 2578 (1825)

  2 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [80 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
F. Masson, Water-colour drawings of Plants from South Africa, Canaries, Azores, West Indies (unpublished) : t. 95 () [F. Masson]
  2 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [80 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
Ill. S. Afr. Flora: () [M.C. Fawkes]
  2 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [80 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
F. Masson, Water-colour drawings of Plants from South Africa, Canaries, Azores, West Indies (unpublished) : t. 98 () [F. Masson]
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
M. North, Paintings M. North: t. 395, fig. 1 () [M. North]
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
J. Breyne, Exot. Pl. Cent.: t. 39 (1678)
249210
5 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [116 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
[150523-51448-51448]
Trav. Disc. Source Nile (Cartes et figures du Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie): t. 1 (1792)
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
W. Curtis, Bot. Mag., vol. 30 : t. 1217 (1809) [n.a.]
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
N.J. von Jacquin, Fragm. Bot.: t. 39 (1809)
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
N.J. von Jacquin, Fragm. Bot.: t. 40 (1809)
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
N.J. von Jacquin, Fragm. Bot.: t. 41 (1809)
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
N.J. von Jacquin, Fragm. Bot.: t. 41 (1809)
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
S.T. Edwards, Bot. Reg., vol. 7 : t. 567 (1822) [M. Hart]
307543
6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
[150523-51448-491244]
J.S. Kerner, Hort. Semperv., vol. 71 : t. 841 (1828) [J.S. Kerner]
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [0]
S.T. Edwards, Bot. Reg., vol. 14 : t. 1153 (1828) [M. Hart]
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [0]
L.B. Van Houtte, Fl. Serres, vol. 3 fasicle 2, : p. 192, t. 1 (1847) [n.a.]
51629
6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
[150523-51448-491363]
L.B. Van Houtte, Fl. Serres, vol. 5 : p. 434 (1849)
  6 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [125 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
Rev. Hort. (Paris), ser. 4, vol. 29 (Année 1857): p. 31, fig. 11 (1857)
  2 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [80 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
J.M. Wood, M.S. Evans, Natal Pl., vol. 6 : t. 595 (1909)
  2 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [80 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
I.B. Pole Evans, Fl. Pl. Afr., vol. 6 : t. 230 (1926) [K.A. Lansdell]
  2 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [80 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
I.B. Pole-Evans, E.P. Phillips, R.A. Dyer, L.E. Codd, Fl. Pl. S. Afr., vol. 6 : t. 230 (1926) [K.A. Lansdell]
  2 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [80 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
I.B. Pole-Evans, E.P. Phillips, R.A. Dyer, L.E. Codd, Fl. Pl. S. Afr., vol. 29 : t. 1141 (1952) [C. Letty]
  2 150523 Boophone disticha (L.f.) Herb. [80 51448 Amaryllis disticha L.f.]
Wild Fl. World: t. 86, fig. B () [B. Everard]


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