Albuca boissieri S.S.Ying
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iNaturalist and GBIF media were skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.About the genus · Albuca
Albuca is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. The genus is distributed mainly in southern and eastern Africa, with some species occurring in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Plants of the genus are known commonly as slime lilies.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Albuca", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the genus Albuca in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Albuca in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “bulbous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 7656654 (Albuca sordida Baker, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
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Related
Other Albuca 170 in the reference
Albuca abyssinica Asparagaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated
Albuca acuminata Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Chris Vynbos Albuca adlami Asparagaceae 
Albuca albucoides Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, James Deacon Albuca amboensis Asparagaceae 
Albuca amoena Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY, Mehdi Chetibi Albuca anisocrispa Asparagaceae Albuca annulata Asparagaceae 
Albuca arenosa Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, James Deacon
Albuca aurea Golden Tamarak Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van Berkel Albuca autumnula Asparagaceae 
Albuca bakeri Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, kevin koen all 171 ›Names & registers
Also known as Albuca sordida. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Albuca boissieri S.S.Ying (plant_name_id 3323302), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 7656654, Albuca sordida Baker (Kew's file holds it as Albuca sordida Baker (illegitimate under Albuca boissieri S.S.Ying)): GBIF occurrence search APIclimate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the rangewikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 77373761-1, POWO 77373761-1wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.