Trachyandra

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Trachyandra is a genus of plant in the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae, first described as a genus in 1843. It is native to eastern and southern Africa, as well as to Yemen and Madagascar. Many of the species are endemic to South Africa. ;Species # Trachyandra acocksii Oberm. – Cape Province in South Africa # Trachyandra adamsonii (Compton) Oberm. – Cape Province, Namibia # Trachyandra affinis Kunth – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal # Trachyandra arenicola J.C.Manning & Goldblatt – Cape Province # Trachyandra aridimontana J.C.Manning – Cape Province # Trachyandra arvensis (Schinz) Oberm. – Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia # Trachyandra asperata Kunth – South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini # Trachyandra brachypoda (Baker) Oberm. – Cape Province # Trachyandra bulbinifolia (Dinter) Oberm. – Cape Province, Namibia # Trachyandra burkei (Baker) Oberm. – Botswana, Limpopo, Free State, Cape Province # Trachyandra capillata (Poelln.) Oberm. – KwaZulu-Natal # Trachyandra chlamydophylla (Baker) Oberm. – Cape Province # Trachyandra ciliata (L.f.) Kunth – Cape Province, Namibia # Trachyandra dissecta Oberm. – Cape Province # Trachyandra divaricata (Jacq.) Kunth – Cape Province; naturalized in Australia # Trachyandra ensifolia (Sölch) Roessler – Namibia # Trachyandra erythrorrhiza (Conrath) Oberm. – Gauteng # Trachyandra esterhuysenae Oberm.…

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