Tulbaghieae

Tulbaghieae
Tulbaghia violacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Tribe:	Tulbaghieae (Meisn.) M.F.Fay & M.W.Chase
Genera
Prototulbaghia [1] Tulbaghia
Synonyms
Tulbaghiaceae Tulbaghioideae (Endl. ex Meisn.) M.F. Fay & M.W. Chase

Tulbaghieae is a tribe of plants belonging to the subfamily Allioideae of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae). It comprises two genera, Tulbaghia and Prototulbaghia , native to South Africa.

Description

Corm shaped bulb or rhizome. Leaf sheaths short. Flowers possess a corona, pseudocorona or a fleshy perigonal ring. ^[2]

References

1. Canio Giuseppe Vosa (2007). "Prototulbaghia, a new genus of the Alliaceae family from the Leolo Mountains in Sekhukhuneland, South Africa" (PDF). Caryologia. 60 (3): 273–278. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.494.6523 . doi:10.1080/00087114.2007.10797948. S2CID   45409345. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-06.
2. Sassone et al. 2014.

Bibliography

• Missouri Botanical Garden
• Sassone, Agostina B.; Arroyo-Leuenberger, Silvia C.; Giussani, Liliana M. (2014). "Nueva Circunscripción de la tribu Leucocoryneae (Amaryllidaceae, Allioideae)". Darwiniana. Nueva Serie. 2 (2): 197–206. doi: 10.14522/darwiniana/2014.22.584 . ISSN   0011-6793 . Retrieved 9 January 2015.