Kumara

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Asparagales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Asparagales

Kumara Medik., Theodora: 69 (1786), nom. cons.

Type species: Kumara plicatilis (L.) G.D.Rowley, Alsterworthia Int., Special Issue 10: 3 (2013)

Basionym
- Aloe sect. Kumara (Medik.) Baker, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 155 (1880).
Homotypic
- Ptyas Salisb., Gen. Pl. 76 (1866).
Heterotypic
- Rhipidodendron Willd., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gesammten Naturk. 15: 164 (1811).
- Aloe ser. Haemanthifoliae A.Berger in H.G.A. Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.38 (Heft 33): 173. 1908).
- Aloe sect. Haemanthifolia (A.Berger) Glen & D.S.Hardy, F. Southern Africa 5(1, 1): 23 (2000).

Medikus, F.K. 1786. Theodora Speciosa: Ein Neues Pflanzen Geschlecht. 116 pp., Hof- und Akademische Buchhandlung, Mannheim. Reference page.

Baker, J.G. 1880. Report on the Liliaceae, Iridaceae, Hypoxidaceae and Haemodoraceae of Welwitsch’s Angolan Herbarium. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ser. 2, 1(5): 245–275. BHL Reference page.
Klopper, R.R. 2013. The correct name of Aloe plicatilis in Kumara (Xanthorrhoeaceae subfam. Asphodeloideae). Phytotaxa 115(2): 59–60. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.115.2.5 Reference page.
Grace, O.M., Klopper, R.R., Smith, G.F., Crouch, N.R., Figueiredo, E., Rønsted, N. & Van Wyk, A.E. 2013. A revised generic classification for Aloe (Xanthorrhoeaceae subfam. Asphodeloideae). Phytotaxa 76(1): 7–14. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.76.1.2 ResearchGate Reference page.
Manning, J.C. Boatwright, J.S., Daru, B.H., Maurin, O. & van der Bank, M. 2014. A molecular phylogeny and generic classification of Asphodelaceae subfamily Alooideae: a final resolution of the prickly issue of polyphyly in the alooids? Systematic Botany 39(1): 55–74. DOI: 10.1600/036364414X678044 ResearchGate Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2017. Kumara in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2017 Sept. 12. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Kumara. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 12 2017.