Cyrtanthus breviflorus (Yellow Fire Lily, Wild Crocus)

Geelvuurlelie, Wildekrokus [Afrikaans]; umpimpilizi [Swazi]; injobo, uvelabahleke [Zulu]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Amaryllidaceae > Genus: Cyrtanthus

Photos above: Cyrtanthus breviflorus flowering in summer, on a wet basalt rock sheet high in the mountains at Naude's Nek in the Eastern Cape Drakensberg, South Africa. [photos Colin Paterson-Jones ©]	Photos above: Cyrtanthus breviflorus, Umgeni Nature Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [photos H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 232

See Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 94

Links

• Cyrtanthus breviflorus Harv. (Flora of Zimbabwe)