Lachenalia viridiflora, West Coast, ZA-WC, ZA

Lachenalia viridiflora W.F.Barker

Azure Viooltjie

No habitat climate 12 photographs Bulb, tuber or caudex

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Summary

Lachenalia viridiflora, commonly known as the green-flowered Cape cowslip or turquoise hyacinth, is a species of flowering plant in the asparagus family native to the southwest Cape Provinces of South Africa. It was discovered in the 1960s, and first described in 1972 by Winsome Fanny Barker.

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About the genus · Lachenalia

Lachenalia is a genus of bulbous perennial plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, which are usually found in Namibia and South Africa. Most of them have a dormancy period, but new roots will always grow every year.

Text from Wikipedia, “Lachenalia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Asparagaceae

Described by

W.F.Barker

Native to

Cape Provinces

Wild records

34 in range· 3 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Lachenalia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

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

Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-32.875, 18.125 · in the densest population, 34 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 34 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 31 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 32 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 34 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Charleen Brunke, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); Charleen Brunke, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Lachenalia viridiflora, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Enhancing plant regeneration of Lachenalia viridiflora , a critically endangered ornamental geophyte with high floricultural potential

Vijay Kumar, Mack Moyo, Johannes Van Staden (2016) · Scientia Horticulturae

In Vitro Organogenesis of Critically Endangered Lachenalia viridiflora

Małgorzata Maślanka, Justyna Mazur, Anna Kapczyńska (2022) · Agronomy

Cold treatment promotes in vitro germination of two endangered Lachenalia species

Małgorzata Maślanka, Anna Kapczyńska (2021) · South African Journal of Botany

Critically endangered Lachenalia viridiflora - from seeds to flowering bulbs

Anna Kapczyńska (2023) · South African Journal of Botany

Isolation and culturing of protoplasts in endangered Lachenalia viridiflora

Ibrahim Moshood, Małgorzata Maślanka, Anna Kapczyńska, Agnieszka Kiełkowska (2024) · South African Journal of Botany

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