Scadoxus

Taxobox

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image_width = frameless
image_caption = "Scadoxus puniceus"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Amaryllidaceae
genus = "Scadoxus"
genus_authority = Raf.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Scadoxus" is a genus of 9 species native to tropical Africa. The genus has close affinities with "Haemanthus" from which it has only recently been separated.

Species in the genus are
*"S. cinnabarinus" (Decne.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West and Central Africa
*"S. cyrtanthiflorus" (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Ruwenzori mountains between Zaire and Uganda
*"S. longifolius" (De Wild. & Th.Dur.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West Africa
*"S. membranaceus" (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - South Africa
*"S. multiflorus" Rafin.
#ssp. "multiflorus" - Senegal and southern Arabia in the north down to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
#ssp. "katherinae" (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - southern Africa
#ssp. "longitubus" (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West Africa
*"S. nutans" (I.Friis & Bjrnst.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Ethiopia
*"S. pole-evansii" (Oberm.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Zimbabwe
*"S. pseudocaulus" (Bjrnst. & I.Friis) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Tropical Africa
*"S. puniceus" (L.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - South Africa, Tanzania and Ethiopia