Strumaria truncata
| Strumaria truncata | |
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| File:Strumaria truncata inflorescence Alpine House Kew1.jpg | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
| Genus: | Strumaria |
| Species: | S. truncata
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| Binomial name | |
| Strumaria truncata Jacq..[1]
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Strumaria truncata (English common name: Namaqualand snowflake[citation needed]) is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.[1] It is widely distributed in the northwest of the Cape Provinces, and the most common of the Strumaria species found there. It forms small clumps of bulbs which produce twisted leaves. Its flowers, which are sometimes pendulous, vary in colour from white to deep pink.[2] The pink forms were once treated as a separate species, Strumaria rubella,[1] and have also been called var. rubella.[2] The species was first described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1792.[3]
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Wild specimen of white-flowered variety with nodding inflorescence, Knersvlakte Nature Reserve
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Lower portion of plants, showing two bicoloured, inflated, collar-like basal sheaths
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Illustration from von Jacquin's Icones plantarum rariorum (Vol. 2, Plate 357, 1792)
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