Drimiopsis Explained

Drimiopsis is a genus of African bulbous perennial herbs in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to sub-Saharan Africa.^[1] Sometimes species are placed under the genus Ledebouria.

Species

• Drimiopsis atropurpurea N.E.Br - Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal
• Drimiopsis barteri Baker - from Ghana to Somalia, south to Zambia
• Drimiopsis botryoides Baker - eastern Africa
• Drimiopsis burkei Baker - Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Zimbabwe
• Drimiopsis comptonii U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies - Eswatini
• Drimiopsis davidsoniae U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies - Mpumalanga
• Drimiopsis fischeri (Engl.) Stedje - Tanzania
• Drimiopsis linioseta Hankey & Lebatha - Mpumalanga
• Drimiopsis maculata (type)
• Drimiopsis pusilla U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies - Eswatini
• Drimiopsis reilleyana U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies - Eswatini
• Drimiopsis rosea A.Chev. - Central African Republic
• Drimiopsis seretii De Wild - Zaïre
• Drimiopsis spicata (Baker) Sebsebe & Stedje in I.Friis & H.Balslev - Sudan, Ethiopia

External links

• Drimiopsis info at the pacific bulb society http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Drimiopsis.
• Desert-tropicals genus page http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Hyacinthaceae/Drimiopsis.html .
• Yuccado nursery page https://web.archive.org/web/20071110034915/http://www.yuccado.com/displayone.php?ytitle=Drimiopsis%20maculata .

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=305070 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families