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Chlorophytum debile

Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
W. Trop. Africa to Zambia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Chlorophytum debile is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to western and southern tropical Africa. It was first described by John Gilbert Baker in 1878.

Where it grows

Chlorophytum debile is widely distributed in tropical Africa. It is native to most of West Tropical Africa (Benin, Burkina, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo), parts of West-Central Tropical Africa (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon), and Angola and Zambia in South Tropical Africa.

Other Chlorophytum plants

Chlorophytum acutum · Safed Musli · Bracketplant · Spider plant · Chlorophytum filipendulum · Chlorophytum holstii · Chlorophytum inornatum · Pongol Sword · Chlorophytum tuberosum · Grass Lilies

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chlorophytum debile by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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