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Gloriosa superba
Gloriosa superba
- Botanic Family
- Colchicaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
- Propagation
- D.O.S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental with many cultivars
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- Bangldesh
- Benin
- Borneo
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- S. Yunnan - China
- Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritraea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Andaman Islands
- Assam - India
- Ivory Coast
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- S. Sulawesi
- Sumatra - Indonesia
- Kenya
- Laos
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Caprivi Strip - Namibia
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Cape Province
- Transvaal - South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor
- Togo
- Uganda
- Vietnam
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Various medicinal uses. Grassland
- scrub
- forest
- thickets
- montane areas
- hedges
Flowering Times
- Jun to Aug (China) Summer to Autumn
- Apr (Tanzania)
Fruiting Times
Climbing perennial herb to 2m rarely to 6m, with tuberous rhizomes, leaves including apical tendril to 250mm x 45mm, herbaceous glabrous stems. Solitary terminal or axillary corymbs of 100mm diameter red/orange & yellow flowers with undulate margins, perianth to 75mm x 25mm, 100mm x 20mm capsule with red seeds, seasonally dormant
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- P & R 1997
- Manandhar 2002
- RHS A-Z
- FOC
- Llamas 2003
- NYBG
- The Plant List 2
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- Flora Malesiana
- Kew