Taxon: Gloriosa superba L.

Common names:

• climbing-lily   (Source: Dict Gard )
  
• creeping-lily   (Source: Dict Gard )
  
• flame-lily   (Source: Pl Book )
  
• gloriosa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• glory-lily   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• lírio-trepador   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):289. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed   (in Australia fide J. R. Hosking, pers. comm. (via email on 9 Dec 2002))
  

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View toxicology references for Gloriosa superba from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West Tropical Africa: Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Yunnan [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Celebes [s.], Java, Lesser Sunda Islands

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. (Pl SAfr)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. (F EthiopCuf)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales. (F NSWales)
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Kala, C. P. et al. 2004. Prioritization of medicinal plants on the basis of available knowledge, existing practices and use value status in Uttaranchal, India. Biodivers. & Conserv. 13:459.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Lebrun, J. P. & A. L. Stork. 1991–. Énumération des plantes à fleurs d'Afrique tropicale. (L Afr Trop)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):289.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983–1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland. (F SE Queensl)
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Gloriosa superba.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Gloriosa superba. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Clinostylis speciosa Hochst.
  
• (=) Gloriosa abyssinica A. Rich.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Gloriosa homblei De Wild.
  
• (=) Gloriosa hybr.
  
• (=) Gloriosa rothschildiana O'Brien
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Gloriosa simplex auct.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (=) Gloriosa speciosa (Hochst.) Engl.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Gloriosa virescens Lindl.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Gloriosa superba L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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