904.000 Cyanotis D. Don

Description of the genus

Succulent perennials or (rarely) annuals, with bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tubers and often with separate fertile and sterile shoots. Inflorescences composed of cymes, each cyme subtended by a spathe, consisting of 2-ranked sessile or subsessile flowers and usually conspicuous herbaceous bracteoles. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual. Calyx tubular below. Corolla with a short tube, 3 lobes blue, purple or pink. Stamens 6, equal, all fertile. Ovary 3-locular. Capsule narrowly ovoid.

Worldwide: 50 species, in the Old World tropics

Mozambique: 8 taxa.

The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:

Estigmene linea (Streaked ermine)

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
barbata D.Don	MS (other?)	Description, Image
chimanimaniensis Faden INED.[NrEnd]	MS
foecunda Hassk.	MS(Other?)	Description, Image
lanata Benth.	MS (other?)	Description, Image
namuliensis Faden INED.[End]	Z
sp. aff. C. lapidosa E. Phillips	MS
speciosa (L.f.) Hassk. subsp. bulbosa Faden	N
speciosa (L.f.) Hassk. subsp. speciosa	MS (other?)	Description, Image

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Flora of Caprivi: Cyanotis
Flora of Malawi: Cyanotis
Flora of Zambia: Cyanotis
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cyanotis

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