''Hexacyrtis'', common name Namib lily, is a plant genus native to

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

and

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

but cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental plant. At present (April 2014) only one species is recognized: ''Hexacyrtis dickiana'' Dinter. It bears an umbel with

nodding A nod of the head is a gesture in which the head is tilted in alternating up and down arcs along the sagittal plane. In many cultures, it is most commonly, but not universally, used to indicate agreement, acceptance, or acknowledgement. To indi ...

flowers, the

tepals A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of very ...

recurved, red towards the tips but yellow near the center.Moritz Kurt Dinter. 1932. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. Centralblatt für Sammlung und Veroffentlichung von Einzeldiagnosen neuer Pflanzen 30: 84, ''Hexacyrtis dickiana''

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Africa Seeds, ''Hexacyrtis dickiana''iSpot, SANBI Diversity of Life, ''Hexacyrtis dickiana''Age Photostock, ''Hexacyrtis dickiana'' from Namibia
Colchicaceae genera Monotypic Liliales genera Flora of Namibia Flora of South Africa Colchicaceae Taxa named by Kurt Dinter {{Liliales-stub