Clivia
The Klivien ( Clivia ), also called strap leaf, are a genus in the subfamily Amaryllidoideae within the family of the Amaryllis family ( Amaryllidaceae ).
The six species are native to Southern Africa. Clivia miniata Clivia and varieties of nobilis are used as ornamental plants.
Description
Clivia species grow as perennial herbaceous plants that reach heights of growth of about 60 centimeters. They form rhizomes. The undergraduate and more or less in two rows arranged leaves are sessile.
The upright inflorescence stem bears in a doldigen inflorescence ten to twenty flowers. The hermaphrodite flowers are more or less radial symmetry and threefold. The six equal multiform bracts are bright red to orange, rarely yellow. There are six stamens present. The style ends in a three-column scar. Are formed berries.
Ingredients
The Klivien contain, as well as the belladonna lily ( Amaryllis belladonna ) the alkaloid lycorine. Following toxins include: alkaloids, including Lycorin (47%), and Clivimin Clivatin.
System
The genus Clivia in 1928 ... established by John Lindley in Botanical register. The genus name honors Clivia Lady Charlotte Florentia Clive (1787-1866), Duchess of Northumberland, a governess of the future Queen Victoria; in their greenhouses a Clivia could be made to bloom for the first time in Europe.
The genus Clivia belongs to the tribe Haemantheae in the subfamily Amaryllidoideae within the family of Amaryllidaceae. Previously, she was also classified in the family Liliaceae.
There are five earlier today Clivia six types:
- Clivia caulescens R.A.Dyer
- Clivia gardenii Hook.
- Clivia miniata ( Lindl. ) rule
- Clivia mirabilis Rourke
- Clivia nobilis Lindl.
- Clivia robusta BGMurray & al.: She was in BG Murray, Y. Ran, PJ De Lange, K.R.W. Hammett, J. T. Truter & Z.H. Swanevelder: A new species of Clivia ( Amaryllidaceae ) endemic to the Pondoland Centre of Endemism, South Africa, In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 146, 2004, pp. 370 firstdescribed. This endemic species thrives in marshes at each other isolated locations only in Pondoland.
Swell
- John C. Manning, Peter Goldblatt & Dee Snijman: The Color Encyclopedia of Cape Bulbs, 2002, Timber Press, Portland. ISBN 0-88192-547-0 (Section Description and occurrence): Clivia p 108-110
- The Clivia site. (English )
- YD Ran et al.: Phylogenetic analysis and karyotype evolution in the genus Clivia ( Amaryllidaceae ), In: Ann. Bot (Oxford), Volume 87, 2001, pp. 823-830.