''Trachyandra'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
in the
family
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Asphodelaceae
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, subfamily
Asphodeloideae,
[Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards)]
"Asphodeloideae"
''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2016-06-10 first described as a genus in 1843. It is native to eastern and southern
Africa
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, as well as to
Yemen
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and
Madagascar
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. Many of the species are
endemic
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to
South Africa
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.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref>[Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.]
;Species [
# '' Trachyandra acocksii'' Oberm. - Cape Province in South Africa
# '' Trachyandra adamsonii'' (Compton) Oberm. - Cape Province, Namibia
# '' Trachyandra affinis'' Kunth - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal
# '' Trachyandra arenicola'' J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra aridimontana'' J.C.Manning - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra arvensis'' (Schinz) Oberm. - Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia
# '' Trachyandra asperata'' Kunth - South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini
# '' Trachyandra brachypoda'' (Baker) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra bulbinifolia'' (Dinter) Oberm. - Cape Province, Namibia
# '' Trachyandra burkei'' (Baker) Oberm. - Botswana, Limpopo, Free State, Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra capillata'' (Poelln.) Oberm. - KwaZulu-Natal
# '' Trachyandra chlamydophylla'' (Baker) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra ciliata'' (L.f.) Kunth - Cape Province, Namibia
# '' Trachyandra dissecta'' Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra divaricata'' (Jacq.) Kunth - Cape Province; naturalized in Australia
# '' Trachyandra ensifolia ''(Sölch) Roessler - Namibia
# '' Trachyandra erythrorrhiza'' (Conrath) Oberm. - Gauteng
# '' Trachyandra esterhuysenae'' Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra falcata'' (L.f.) Kunth - Cape Province, Namibia
# '' Trachyandra filiformis'' (Aiton) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra flexifolia'' (L.f.) Kunth - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra gerrardii'' (Baker) Oberm. - Eswatini, South Africa
# '' Trachyandra giffenii'' (F.M.Leight.) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra glandulosa'' (Dinter) Oberm. - Namibia
# '' Trachyandra gracilenta'' Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra hantamensis'' Boatwr. & J.C.Manning - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra hirsuta'' (Thunb.) Kunth - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra hirsutiflora'' (Adamson) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra hispida'' (L.) Kunth - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra involucrata'' (Baker) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra jacquiniana'' (Schult. & Schult.f.) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra kamiesbergensis'' Boatwr. & J.C.Manning - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra karrooica'' Oberm. - Cape Province, Namibia
# '' Trachyandra lanata'' (Dinter) Oberm. - Namibia
# '' Trachyandra laxa'' (N.E.Br.) Oberm. - South Africa, Namibia, Botswana
# '' Trachyandra malosana'' (Baker) Oberm. - Malawi to Zimbabwe
# '' Trachyandra mandrarensis'' (H.Perrier) Marais & Reilly - Madagascar
# '' Trachyandra margaretae'' Oberm. - Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal
# '' Trachyandra montana'' J.C.Manning & Goldblatt - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra muricata'' (L.f.) Kunth - Cape Province, Namibia
# '' Trachyandra oligotricha'' (Baker) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra paniculata'' Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra patens'' Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra peculiaris'' (Dinter) Oberm. - Namibia
# '' Trachyandra prolifera'' P.L.Perry - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra pyrenicarpa'' (Welw. ex Baker) Oberm. Huíla Province in Angola
# '' Trachyandra revoluta'' (L.) Kunth - Cape Province, Namibia
# '' Trachyandra sabulosa'' (Adamson) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra saltii'' (Baker) Oberm. - eastern + southern Africa from Ethiopia to Cape Province; Yemen
# '' Trachyandra sanguinorhiza'' Boatwr. & J.C.Manning - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra scabra'' (L.f.) Kunth - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra smalliana'' Hilliard & B.L.Burtt - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal
# '' Trachyandra tabularis'' (Baker) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra thyrsoidea'' (Baker) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra tortilis'' (Baker) Oberm. - Cape Province
# '' Trachyandra triquetra'' Thulin - Somalia
# '' Trachyandra zebrina'' (Schltr. ex Poelln.) Oberm. - Cape Province
]
References
Asphodelaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Flora of the Afrotropical realm
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