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Gloriosa superba (flame lily)

Synonyms: Clinostylis speciosa; Eugone superba; Gloriosa abyssinica; Gloriosa angulata; Gloriosa caerulea; Gloriosa carsonii; Gloriosa cirrhifolia; Gloriosa doniana; Gloriosa graminifolia heterophylla; Gloriosa grandiflora; Gloriosa homblei; Gloriosa leopoldii; Gloriosa lutea; Gloriosa nepalensis; Gloriosa plantii; Gloriosa rockefelleriana; Gloriosa rothschildiana; Gloriosa sampiana; Gloriosa simplex; Gloriosa speciosa; Gloriosa superba angustifolia; Gloriosa superba doniana; Gloriosa superba grandiflora; Gloriosa verschuurii; Gloriosa virescens; Gloriosa virescens grandiflora; Gloriosa virescens leopoldii; Gloriosa virescens petersiana; Gloriosa virescens plantii; Gloriosa virescens platyphylla; Methonica abyssinica; Methonica doniana; Methonica gloriosa; Methonica grandiflora; Methonica leopoldii; Methonica petersiana; Methonica plantii; Methonica platyphylla; Methonica superba; Methonica virescens

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa

Emblem of

Tamil Nadu
Zimbabwe

Predators

Pericallia erosa[4]
Polytela gloriosae[4]
Polytelodes florifera[4]
Tortrix dinota[4]

Distribution

Trop. & S. Africa, Indian Subcontinent to Lesser Sunda Is.;

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Photos

Citations

Species recognized by Govaerts R., 06-Jan-2005, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Protected Areas provided by Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators.
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