Asparagaceae
Ornithogalum

Ornithogalum thyrsoides Jacq.

First published in Hort. Bot. Vindob. 3: 17 (1777)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Cape Prov. It is a bulbous geophyte and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is used as a poison and a medicine and has environmental uses.

Distribution

Native to:

Cape Provinces

Introduced into:

Mexico Central, New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1996). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(6): 1-116. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
  • George, A.S. (ed.) (1987). Flora of Australia 45: 1-521. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1996). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(6): 1-116. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.
  • George, A.S. (ed.) (1987). Flora of Australia 45: 1-521. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Yorke, H.F.R. [50] K002196066 No
[illegible] [s.n.] K002196072 No
s.coll. [s.n.] South Africa K002196042 No
[J. Shoole] [A 1135] South Africa K002196056 No
Cook, F. [1756/25] South Africa K000365650 Type Yes
Yorke, H.F.R. [51] K002196067 No
Story, R. [4424] South Africa K002196054 No
Zeyher [1679] K002196069 No
Werdermann, E.; Oberdieck, H.D. [294] South Africa K002196059 No
Salter, T.M. [4071] South Africa K002196049 No
Rogers, F.A. [26760] K002196039 No
Stephens, E.L.; [R. Glover] [8631] K002196053 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002196044 No
s.coll. [27540] South Africa K002196040 No
s.coll. [3692] K002196061 No
Wallich; Zeyher [1679] South Africa K002196068 No
Strey, R.G. [981] South Africa K002196055 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002196071 No
Salter, T.M. [4968] South Africa K002196050 No
Smith, C.A. [4676] South Africa K002196052 No
Steiner, K. [2917] South Africa K002196060 No
[H. Kees] [s.n.] K002196043 No
Zeyher; Reichenbach, H.G. [4201] K002196070 No
s.coll. [s.n.] K002196064 No
s.coll. [s.n.] South Africa K002196063 No
[Eleanor Ryder] [19982] K002196045 No
Hasserfall, E. [947] South Africa K002196058 No
Hanekom, W.J. [2616] K002196073 No
Thom [s.n.] K002196057 No
Rogers, F.A. [28224] K002196041 No
Salter, T.M. [3875] South Africa K002196048 No
Ryder, E. [19989] K002196046 No
Schlechter [9131] South Africa K000365649 Type Yes
Salter, T.M. [2859] South Africa K002196047 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0