Tulbaghia


Tulbaghia is a genus of monocotyledonous herbaceous perennial bulbs native to Africa, belonging to the amaryllis family. It is one of only two known genera in the society garlic tribe within the onion subfamily.
The genus was named for Ryk Tulbagh, one time governor of The Cape of Good Hope.
Most species are native to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. As is common to many members of the Allioideae, when their leaves are bruised they produce a distinct garlic smell, hence its common name. The flowers are borne in an umbel. Each flower has six narrow tepals. A characteristic of the genus is that there is a "corona" – a raised crown-like structure – at the centre of the flower. This may be small and scale-like or may be larger, somewhat like the trumpet of a small narcissus.
;SpeciesTulbaghia acutiloba Harv. – Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa Tulbaghia aequinoctialis Welw. ex Baker – AngolaTulbaghia alliacea L.f., syn. Tulbaghia affinis – Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa Tulbaghia calcarea Engl. & Krause – NamibiaTulbaghia cameronii Baker – Cameroon, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia Tulbaghia capensis L. – Cape Province Tulbaghia cernua Fisch. – Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa Tulbaghia coddii Vosa & R.B.Burb. – MpumalangaTulbaghia cominsii Vosa – Cape Province Tulbaghia dregeana Kunth – Cape Province Tulbaghia friesii Suess. – Nyanga Mountains of Mozambique + ZimbabweTulbaghia galpinii Schltr. – Cape Province Tulbaghia leucantha Baker – Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia Tulbaghia ludwigiana Harv. – Eswatini, South AfricaTulbaghia luebbertiana Engl. & Krause – NamibiaTulbaghia macrocarpa Vosa – ZimbabweTulbaghia maritima Vosa – Cape Province Tulbaghia montana Vosa – Cape Province Tulbaghia natalensis Baker – Cape Province, KwaZulu-NatalTulbaghia nutans Vosa – MpumalangaTulbaghia pretoriensis Vosa & Condy – GautengTulbaghia rhodesica R.E.Fr. – Tanzania, ZambiaTulbaghia simmleri Beauverd – Northern ProvinceTulbaghia tenuior K.Krause & Dinter – Cape Province, NamibiaTulbaghia transvaalensis Vosa – Limpopo, KwaZulu-NatalTulbaghia verdoornia Vosa & R.B.Burb. – Cape ProvinceTulbaghia violacea Harv. – Society garlic – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal; naturalized in Tanzania + Mexico
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A few names have been coined using the name Tulbaghia, but applied to species now considered better suited to the genus Agapanthus. Tulbaghia africana – Agapanthus africanus Tulbaghia heisteri – Agapanthus africanus Tulbaghia minor – Agapanthus africanus