Haemanthus carneus

Taxobox
name = "Haemanthus carneus"


image_caption =
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Amaryllidaceae
genus = "Haemanthus"
species = "H. carneus"
binomial = "Haemanthus carneus"
binomial_authority = Ker Gawl.
range_

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range_map_caption=Distribution over South Africa

"Haemanthus carneus" ('carneus': Latin 'flesh-coloured') is a South African bulbous geophyte belonging to the Amaryllidaceae. Despite a fairly wide distribution, it has been collected from only a few scattered sites in the Orange Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape near Grahamstown and Somerset East, occurring between 300 m and 1200 m above sea level.

The bulbs grow in small clumps in the shelter of trees, bushes and rocks. Their tunics are more or less equal with horizontal leaf-scars. Leaves number two or three, usually flat on the ground, appearing with the flowers or following on soon. Peduncles show quite a variation in length from 100-200 mm long.

"H. carneus" was first described in 1821 by the English botanist John Bellenden Ker Gawler (1764-1842), first editor of Edward's Botanical Register.

References

*"The Genus Haemanthus: A Revision" - Deidré Snijman (National Botanic Gardens of South Africa 1984) ISBN 0 620 07339 X

External links

* [http://www.pbase.com/dorff/image/50511550 Haemanthus carneus]
* [http://www.pbase.com/dorff/image/50511551 Haemanthus carneus]
* [http://www.ausbulbs.org/bulbgal/categories.php?cat_id=47&sessionid=38a7c31efc Australian Bulb Association]