- Family : AMARYLLIDACEAE
(Amaryllis Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : SUDARSHAN FAMILY (सुदर्शन फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Amaryllidaceae
- Basionym : Haemanthus multiflorus Martyn
- Synonym(s) : Haemanthus kalbreyeri Baker
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Scadoxus multiflorus (Martyn) Raf.
- Common name : Fireball Lily
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Often grown in gardens. Also occurs as an escape
- Flower, Fruit : April-May
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 09/05/1959
- Collection Nos : CS 4361
- Collection Locality : Kodaikanal, Dindigal dist.
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Native : Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Na
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Scadoxus multiflorus. Downloaded on 5 October 2024.
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