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Galtonia
Sign in to savethumb|First page of Decaisne's description, 1880 thumb|Galtonia princeps (Ornithogalum princeps), ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'' 1914)
Species
Namibian Slangkop
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyAsparagaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Hyacinthaceae
- Collections
- NMMNHS, NCSM, BRIT, VT
- Recorded in
- United States, South Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Phylogenetics
- Subdivision
- Species
- Etymology
- Distribution and habitat
- Uses
- See also
- Notes
- References
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thumb|First page of Decaisne's description, 1880 thumb|Galtonia princeps (Ornithogalum princeps), ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine 1914)
Galtonia is a genus of plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Native to Southern Africa, the genus is named after Sir Francis Galton. According to some authorities it has been subsumed into Ornithogalum as a subgenus, while others prefer to keep it as a separate genus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galtonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.