Scadoxus
Scadoxus puniceus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Tribe:	Haemantheae
Subtribe:	Haemanthineae
Genus:	Scadoxus Raf.
Species
See text.

Scadoxus is a genus of 9 species native to tropical Africa. The genus has close affinities with Haemanthus from which it has only recently been separated.

Species in the genus are

• S. cinnabarinus (Decne.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West and Central Africa
• S. cyrtanthiflorus (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Ruwenzori mountains between Zaire and Uganda
• S. longifolius (De Wild. & Th.Dur.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West Africa
• S. membranaceus (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - South Africa
• S. multiflorus Rafin.

1. ssp. multiflorus - Senegal and southern Arabia in the north down to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
2. ssp. katherinae (Bak.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - southern Africa
3. ssp. longitubus (C.H.Wright) I.Friis & I.Nordal - West Africa

• S. nutans (I.Friis & Bjrnst.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Ethiopia
• S. pole-evansii (Oberm.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Zimbabwe
• S. pseudocaulus (Bjrnst. & I.Friis) I.Friis & I.Nordal - Tropical Africa
• S. puniceus (L.) I.Friis & I.Nordal - South Africa, Tanzania and Ethiopia

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