Drimia duthieae (Adamson) Jessop (1977:278)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Drimia duthiae [orth. error used by (Humphreys et al., 2019)]; Urginea duthiae Adamson [orth. error used by (Humphreys et al., 2019)]
Invalid (synonym of D. exuviata) (Jessop, 1977) or Invalid (synonym of Urginea unifolia) (POWO, 2025)
Listed twice by (Humphreys et al., 2019), once as a synonym of Tenicroa filifolia (under Drimia duthiae (sic)), and once as a valid species (under Drimia duthieae) with Urginea duthiae as a synonym even though it is not a heterotypic synonym but a homotypic one.
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of D. exuviata) (Jessop, 1977) or Invalid (synonym of Urginea unifolia) (POWO, 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
South Africa
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Greuter, W. (1996). Extinction in Mediterranean areas. Extinction Rates. Oxford University Press.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Jessop, J. P. (1977). Studies in the bulbous Liliaceae in South Africa: 7. The taxonomy of Drimia and certain allied Genera. Journal of South African Botany 43: 265-319.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 24 July 2025]