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Drimia exigua Stedje

Asparagaceae

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Bulb, tuber or caudex

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About the genus · Drimia

Drimia is a genus of African, south European and south Asian flowering plants. In the APG IV classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. When broadly circumscribed, the genus includes a number of other genera previously treated separately, including Litanthus, Rhodocodon, Schizobasis and Urginea.

Text from Wikipedia, “Drimia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
Stedje
Native to
Ethiopia
Wild records
none in range

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by the genus Drimia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeEthiopia
Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Drimia exigua, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Drimia exigua (Hyacinthaceae), a new species from Ethiopia
Brita Stedje (1994) · Nordic Journal of Botany

Other Drimia 107 in the reference

History & registers

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