The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·568543GenusPlantae725 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›monocots
  5. ›Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies
  6. ›amaryllis, onions, and allies
  7. ›amaryllis subfamily
  8. ›Amaryllideae
  9. ›Candelabra Subtribe
Sambreeltjies
Plate 1 of 6. (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Tony Rebelo · via iNaturalist

Sambreeltjies

Hessea

Hessea is a genus of bulb-forming plants in the Amaryllis family native to Namibia and South Africa. The genus name commemorates C. H. F. Hesse (1772–1832), who resided in Cape Town from 1800 to 1817.

Continue reading on Wikipedia

14 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Match Sambreeltjie

speciesHessea breviflora

Mountain Sambreeltjie

speciesHessea monticola

Cinnamon Sambreeltjie

speciesHessea cinnamomea

Star Sambreeltjie

speciesHessea stellaris

Pond Sambreeltjie

speciesHessea mathewsii

Hessea speciosa

speciesHessea speciosa

Gif Sambreetjie

speciesHessea undosa

Wash Sambreeltjie

speciesHessea pilosula

Hessea pallida

speciesHessea pallida

Hessea pulcherrima

speciesHessea pulcherrima

Kamies Sambreetjie

speciesHessea incana

Hessea stenosiphon

speciesHessea stenosiphon

Hessea tenuipedicellata

speciesHessea tenuipedicellata

Hessea pusilla

speciesHessea pusilla

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Hessea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 568543.