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Inkflowers
Harveya
Harveya is a genus of parasitic plants in the family Orobanchaceae. The approximately 29 species included are native to Africa from Eritrea to South Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, the Arabian Peninsula, and Turkmenistan in Central Asia. In South Africa they are commonly known as 'inkblom', because early settlers used the flowers to make ink, and this is the source of the English common-names for the genus of ink flower or ink plant.
The genus was named after William Henry Harvey, thus achieving one of his childhood ambitions. Discussing his vocational prospects as a youth, Harvey wrote that he was "neither fit to be a doctor nor a lawyer, lacking courage for the one, and face for the other, and application for both.... All I have a taste for is natural history, and that might possibly lead in days to come to a genus called Harveya, and the letters F.L.S. after my name, and with that I shall be content."
28 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cape Inkflower
speciesHarveya capensis
Purple Inkflower
speciesHarveya purpurea
Showy Inkflower
speciesHarveya speciosa
Scaly Inkflower
speciesHarveya squamosa
Few-flowered Inkflower
speciesHarveya pauciflora
Red Inkflower
speciesHarveya stenosiphon
Harveya huttonii
speciesHarveya huttonii
Scarlet Inkflower
speciesHarveya bolusii
Candyfloss Inkflower
speciesHarveya roseoalba
Lonely Inkflower
speciesHarveya scarlatina
Harveya pumila
speciesHarveya pumila
Harveya obtusifolia
speciesHarveya obtusifolia
Great Red Inkflower
speciesHarveya bodkinii
Harveya hyobanchoides
speciesHarveya hyobanchoides
Harveya tanzanica
speciesHarveya tanzanica
Harveya alectroides
speciesHarveya alectroides
Harveya comorensis
speciesHarveya comorensis
Harveya huillensis
speciesHarveya huillensis
Harveya alba
speciesHarveya alba
Harveya kenyensis
speciesHarveya kenyensis
Harveya vestita
speciesHarveya vestita
Harveya helenae
speciesHarveya helenae
Harveya versicolor
speciesHarveya versicolor
Harveya kiangombensis
speciesHarveya kiangombensis
Harveya liebuschiana
speciesHarveya liebuschiana
Harveya andongensis
speciesHarveya andongensis
Harveya thonneri
speciesHarveya thonneri
Harveya buchwaldii
speciesHarveya buchwaldii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 134182.