Succulent perennials or (rarely) annuals, with bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tubers and often with separate fertile and sterile shoots. Inflorescences composed of cymes, each cyme subtended by a spathe, consisting of 2-ranked sessile or subsessile flowers and usually conspicuous herbaceous bracteoles. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual. Calyx tubular below. Corolla with a short tube, 3 lobes blue, purple or pink. Stamens 6, equal, all fertile. Ovary 3-locular. Capsule narrowly ovoid. Worldwide: 50 species, in the Old World tropics Mozambique: 8 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
barbata D.Don | MS (other?) | Description, Image |
chimanimaniensis Faden INED.[NrEnd] | MS | |
foecunda Hassk. | MS(Other?) | Description, Image |
lanata Benth. | MS (other?) | Description, Image |
namuliensis Faden INED.[End] | Z | |
sp. aff. C. lapidosa E. Phillips | MS | |
speciosa (L.f.) Hassk. subsp. bulbosa Faden | N | |
speciosa (L.f.) Hassk. subsp. speciosa | MS (other?) | Description, Image |