1310.000 Babiana Ker Gawl. ex Sims

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs, dying back each year, with corms, these with fibrous tunics. Stem largely underground. Foliage leaves usually plicate. Inflorescence a spike. Flowers zygomorphic, usually pale to dark blue to mauve, tepals united into a perianth tube, subequal or forming two lips, the upper tepal much enlarged. Fruit a capsule.

Worldwide: c. 63 species, in southern Africa, especially the Cape; 1 in Socotra

Zimbabwe: 1 taxon.

Babiana hypogea

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
hypogea Burch.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Babiana:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Babiana
Flora of Zambia: Babiana
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Babiana

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Babiana
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Babiana
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Babiana
Wikipedia: Babiana
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Babiana
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Babiana

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Babiana.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=388, retrieved 2 April 2023

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