Bulbine

Bulbine frutescens

Bulbine is a plant genus in the subfamily of Asphodelus ( Asphodeloideae ) with about 50 to 60 species. Although the name Bulbine from Latin bulbus is derived for tuber or bulb, most species of this genus have no such outlasting. Most species are there in the Capensis. Species which were summarized earlier in the genus Bulbinopsis are located in Australia. All types except Bulbine frutescens are very sensitive to frost.

Description

There are annual to perennial herbaceous plants; many species are succulent plants. Some species form rhizomes or tubers of as outlasting. The sessile, hairless, with parallel venation, often lanceolate leaves are tufted together at the plant base. The leaf margins may be smooth, sawn or perforated.

You have racemose inflorescences. The hermaphrodite, stalked flowers are triple. The six bracts are free. They have six stamens. Three carpels are fused into a superior ovaries.

They form seed capsules with triangular seeds which are winged in some species.

System

The first description by Nathanael Matthew Wolf was published in 1776. Synonyms for Bulbine Wolf are Blephanthera Raf. (1837 ), Nemopogon Raf. (1837 ) and Bulbinopsis Borzi ( 1897).

The genus Bulbine include the following types:

• Bulbine abyssinica A.Rich.
• Bulbine alata Baijnath
• Bulbine alooides (L.) Willd.
• Bulbine Alveolata S.A.Hammer
• Bulbine angustifolia Poelln.
• Bulbine annua (L.) Willd.
• Bulbine asphodeloides (L.) Spreng.
• Bulbine bachmannii Baker
• Bulbine bruynsii S.A.Hammer
• Bulbine bulbosa ( R.Br. ) Haw.
• Bulbine capensis Baijnath ex G.Will.
• Bulbine capitata Poelln.
• Bulbine cepacea ( Burm.f. ) Wijnands
• Bulbine coetzeei Oberm.
• Bulbine cremnophila van Jaarsv.
• Bulbine dactylopsoides G.Will.
• Bulbine diphylla Schltr. ex Poelln.
• Bulbine disimilis G.Will.
• Bulbine erectipilosa G.Will.
• Bulbine erumpens S.A.Hammer
• Bulbine esterhuyseniae Baijnath
• Bulbine fallax Poelln.
• Bulbine favosa ( Thunb. ) Schult. & Schult.f.
• Bulbine flexicaulis Baker
• Bulbine flexuosa Schltr.
• Bulbine foleyi E.Phillips
• Bulbine fragilis G.Williamson
• Bulbine francescae G.Will. & Baijnath
• Bulbine frutescens (L.) Willd. It is also called focal jelly plant because of the torn fresh leaves emerges a jelly-like juice that is used in Africa as a healing ointment for burns, wounds, insect bites, eczema and rashes. The juice contains anti -bacterial agents. From the fresh leaves and a thick tea can be prepared which helps against colds, coughs and arthritis. This type is sometimes called as some other types of very different families cattail plant. The species is occasionally cultivated as a container plant.
• Bulbine haworthioides B.Nord.
• Bulbine inamarxiae G.Will. & A.P.Dold
• Bulbine inflata Oberm.
• Bulbine lagopus ( Thunb. ) N.E.Br.
• Bulbine lamprophylla Williamson
• Bulbine latifolia ( L. F. ) Spreng. Bulbine latifolia var latifolia
• Bulbine latifolia var curvata van Jaarsv.

Swell

• Description of the species in the flora of Western Australia. (English )
• Walter Erhardt et al: The big walleye. Encyclopedia of plant names. Volume 2, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7.