URGINAVIA ALTISSIMA
Author:
Franz Speta, 1998
Family:
HYACINTHACEAE
Origin:
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda
Elevation:
Publisher:
Bot. Mag. 27: t. 1074 (1808)
Collection number:
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Thickness:
12 Centimetres
Height:
40 (200) Centimetres
Propagate:
Seeds/Bulbs
CITES:
Synonyms:
Drimia barteri, Baker.
Drimia paolii, Chiov.
Drimia uitenhagensis, Eckl.
Idothea altissima, Kuntze.
Idothea barteri, Kuntze.
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Ornithogalum altissimum, L.f.
Ornithogalum giganteum, Jacq.
Scilla micrantha, A.Rich.
Urginavia altissima, Speta.
Urginavia epigea, Speta.
Urginavia micrantha, Speta.
Urginea brevipes, Baker.
Urginea gigantea, Oyewole.
Urginea micrantha, Solms.
And Urginea epigea, Robert Allen Dyer, 1947 - I' afraid.
This member of the Hyacinthaceae family was given this name by Franz Speta in 1998. It is found in Africa below Sahara, growing in a drained but rich soil with quite some water and lots of sun. The bulb can grow to twelve centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to 40 centimetres in height, 200 centimetres with the inflorescence. The flowers are white and green.
The genera name after Johannes Heinrich Ursinus, 1608-1667, a German author, scholar, Lutheran theologian, humanist and dean of Regensburg. The species name indicates, the inflorescence is high. *) Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Hyacinthaceae is now part of the Asparagaceae.
Flower
White / Green
Soil
Mix
Water
Medium - Maximum
Sun
Maximum