Zygotritonia Mildbr.

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs with spherical corms. Leaves few, the lowest membranous and sheathing the stem base, the foliage leaves 2-4, appearing with the flowers. Inflorescence of spikes bearing many flowers per axis. Flowers zygomorphic; tepals united into a short tube, unequal, linear-spathulate, obtuse, the upper tepal much exceeding the others and arched over the stamens, the lower 3 tepals smallest.

Worldwide: 4 species in Tropical Africa from Senegal to Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.

Malawi: 1 taxon.

Zygotritonia nyassana

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
nyassana Mildbr. NDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Zygotritonia:

Our websites:

Flora of the DRC: Zygotritonia
Flora of Zambia: Zygotritonia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Zygotritonia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Zygotritonia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Zygotritonia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Zygotritonia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Zygotritonia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Zygotritonia
JSTOR Plant Science: Zygotritonia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Zygotritonia
Plants of the World Online: Zygotritonia
Tropicos: Zygotritonia
Wikipedia: Zygotritonia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Genus page: Zygotritonia.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1966, retrieved 5 December 2024

Site software last modified: 12 October 2020 11:05pm
Terms of use