Strumaria truncata (English common name: Namaqualand snowflake[citation needed]) is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.[1] It is widely distributed in the northwest of the Cape Provinces, and the most common of the Strumaria species found there. It forms small clumps of bulbs which produce twisted leaves. Its flowers, which are sometimes pendulous, vary in colour from white to deep pink.[2] The pink forms were once treated as a separate species, Strumaria rubella,[1] and have also been called var. rubella.[2] The species was first described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1792.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
| Genus: | Strumaria |
| Species: | S. truncata
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| Binomial name | |
| Strumaria truncata Jacq..[1]
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Gallery
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Wild specimen of white-flowered variety with nodding inflorescence, Knersvlakte Nature Reserve -
Lower portion of plants, showing two bicoloured, inflated, collar-like basal sheaths -
Illustration from von Jacquin's Icones plantarum rariorum (Vol. 2, Plate 357, 1792)
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Strumaria truncata Jacq.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2022-04-04
- ^ a b Grossi, Alberto (2014), "Strumaria in cultivation", The Plantsman, (New Series), 13 (4): 222–225
- ^ "Strumaria truncata Jacq.", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2022-04-04
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