Species
⟳ +
Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built. Not a statement that none exist.

Trimelopter crispolanatum Mart.-Azorín, M.B.Crespo, M.Á.Alonso & M.Pinter

Asparagaceae · doubtful

No habitat climate Photographs not checked
Add one to my plants Sow seed

Every figure on this page is derived from public data by a stated rule and says its source; nothing here is written by a person or a model, except the Wikipedia passage, which is quoted and marked as such. How it is made.

About the genus · Trimelopter

Albuca is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. The genus is distributed mainly in southern and eastern Africa, with some species occurring in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Plants of the genus are known commonly as slime lilies.

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

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
Mart.-Azorín, M.B.Crespo, M.Á.Alonso & M.Pinter
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
none in range

Cultivation

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.
NativeCape Provinces
Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “desert or dry shrubland”· 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 Trimelopter crispolanatum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Ornithogalum adamii, a new dwarf species from the Tanqua Karoo, Western Cape and the new combinations O. humanii and Albuca crispolanata (Hyacinthaceae: Ornithogaloideae)
J. C. Manning, A. Harrower (2022) · South African Journal of Botany
Trimelopter crispolanatum (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a new species from Namaqualand, South Africa
Mario Martínez‐Azorín, Manuel B. Crespo, M. Ángeles Alonso-Vargas, Michael Pinter (2020) · Phytotaxa
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

History & registers

GBIF
Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences nothing to report
climate nothing to report
wikidata failedcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
wikipedia nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped
inat.taxon not askedcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive)
inat.photos.wild nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
inat.photos.cultivated nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
commons nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
gbif.media did not answercarried from build of 2026-09-20 (rederive); that build: api.gbif.org not asked: offline re-derivation
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.