Distribution Map

Bulbine abyssinica

           

Asphodelaceae Asphodeloideae  

As at April 2024, 5 herbarium specimens, 6 photo records

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa
Flora Protection Act: Schedule C
Medicinal

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Bulbine asphodeloides - Producing stem, often shortly branched, hard, few cm long, clasped by membranous bases of tuft of leaves, flowering axis rather rigid, often curved, of almost indefinite growth with large number of stalked flowers from c 30—45 cm at base. Flower-stalk c 2,5 cm long, curling backwards after fall of flower (remaining straight if fruit formed). Perianth wide open, delicate, yellow, c 1 cm diam, segments one-nerved, persisting round young fruit.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.