Clivia mirabilis (Amaryllidaceae: Haemantheae) a new species from Northern Cape, South Africa

2002/09/11 by J. P. Rourke

paper · doi:10.4102/abc.v32i1.455

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Abstract

Clivia mirabilis Rourke is a new pendulous tubular-flowered species from Oorlogskloof Nature Reserve in Northern Cape. Its distribution area is some 800 km outside the previously accepted range of the genus Clivia. This sun-tolerant species is adapted to an arid Mediterranean climate, producing vegetative growth in winter and maturing its seeds rapidly in late summer/early autumn to synchronize with the arrival of winter rains.

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