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iNat·367466GenusPlantae6,671 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›monocots
  5. ›Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. ›amaryllis, onions, and allies
  7. ›amaryllis subfamily
  8. ›Amaryllideae
  9. ›Oxbane Subtribe
Oxbanes
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Oxbanes

Boophone

Boophone is a small genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.) It consists of two confirmed species distributed across South Africa to Kenya and Uganda. It is closely related to Crossyne, a genus whose species have prostrate leaves. They are drought tolerant but not cold-hardy, and are very poisonous to livestock.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Poison-bulb

speciesBoophone disticha

Brush Oxbane

speciesBoophone haemanthoides

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 367466.