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Clivia gardenii; photograph (c) Mahomed Desai, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Mahomed Desai, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2024-04-27

Clivia gardenii Hook.

Forest Bushlily; Forest Clivia

Amaryllidaceae · Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal

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Summary

Clivia gardenii is a plant and geophyte belonging to the genus Clivia. The species occurs in KwaZulu-Natal from the Ngome Forests to the KwaZulu-Natal Midland and has an area of occurrence of 6,900 km2. There are currently less than ten subpopulations and the species has lost 30% of its habitat in the last 90 years due to its excessive use by traditional healers as well as its collection by horticulturalists. The planting of plantations, crop cultivation and development are also threats.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Clivia gardenii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Clivia

Clivia is a genus of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. Common names are Natal lily or bush lily.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Clivia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 93 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 93 of the 93 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-29.61, 30.909 · in the densest population, 85 records (91% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 93 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 32 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 59 km away. 6 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 93 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 93 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Janet Gates, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) Mahomed Desai, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Sunčana Bradley, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Clivia 5 in the reference

Clivia caulescens Clivia caulescens Longstem Bushlily Photo: CC BY, desertnaturalistClivia miniata Clivia miniata Amaryllidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedClivia mirabilis Clivia mirabilis Oorlogskloof Bushlily Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloClivia nobilis Clivia nobilis Bush Lily Photo: CC0, author not statedClivia robusta Clivia robusta Pondo Bushlily Photo: CC BY, Adele SL

Names & registers

Also known as Clivia gardenii var. citrina; Imantophyllum gardenii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Amaryllidaceae
Described by
Hook.
Native to
Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal
Wild records
93 in range · 32 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2193 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every 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. Records came from 7 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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