Strumaria truncata

Strumaria truncata is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.[1] It is widely distributed in the northwest of the Cape Provinces, and the most common of the Strumaria species found there. It forms small clumps of bulbs which produce twisted leaves. Its flowers, which are pendulous, vary in colour from white to deep pink.[2] The pink forms were once treated as a separate species, Strumaria rubella,[1] and have also been called var. rubella.[2] The species was first described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1792.[3]

Illustration from von Jacquin's Icones plantarum rariorum (Vol. 2, Plate 357, 1792)

Strumaria truncata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Strumaria
Species:
S. truncata
Binomial name
Strumaria truncata
Jacq..[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Amaryllis vaginata (Thunb.) D.Dietr.
  • Brunsvigia vaginata (Thunb.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Haemanthus vaginatus Thunb.
  • Hessea vaginata (Thunb.) Herb.
  • Hymenetron linguiflora Salisb.
  • Hymenetron truncata (Jacq.) Salisb.
  • Pugionella angustifolia (Jacq.) Salisb.
  • Strumaria angustifolia Jacq.
  • Strumaria baueriana Herb.
  • Strumaria linguifolia Jacq.
  • Strumaria rubella Jacq.
  • Stylago rubella (Jacq.) Salisb.

References
  1. "Strumaria truncata Jacq.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2022-04-04
  2. Grossi, Alberto (2014), "Strumaria in cultivation", The Plantsman, (New Series), 13 (4): 222–225
  3. "Strumaria truncata Jacq.", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2022-04-04


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