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Drimia zambesiaca
Also called White Squill, Secret Lily, Secret Night Squill
Drimia zambesaica is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is a bulbous geophyte native to tropical and southern Africa, ranging from Mauritania to Ethiopia and south to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Specimens were previously misidentified as Drimia indica. In 2018 Crouch et al. described a new species and monotypic genus, Zingela pooleyorum. In 2019 John C. Manning discovered that Z. pooleyorum was identical with a 1994 description of Urginea zambesiaca by Kativu and Drummond. Manning placed the species in the genus Drimia, with the older specific epithet zambesaica taking precedence.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Drimia zambesiaca 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.
