Eucomis regia(L.) L'Hér.

WFO wfo-0000767061 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Eucomis regia, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. a douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-10-01 / obs. 53951565
Eucomis regia, photographed by James Deacon
fig. b James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 27162832
Eucomis regia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15373320
Eucomis regia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. d Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15217996
Eucomis regia, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. e Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161496049
Eucomis regia, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. f douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25645959
Eucomis regia, photographed by linkie
fig. g linkie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 15864185
Eucomis regia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. h Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 172692803

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Eucomis regia is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Eucomis regia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Basilaea coronata Lam.
  • Basilaea nana (Burm.f.) Mirb.
  • Basilaea regia (L.) Mirb.
  • Eucomea humilis Salisb.
  • Eucomea regalis Salisb.
  • Eucomis macrophylla Baker
  • Eucomis nana (Burm.f.) L'Hér.
  • Eucomis pillansii L.Guthrie
  • Eucomis pillansii L.Guthrie
  • Eucomis purpureocaulis Andrews
  • Fritillaria nana Burm.f.
  • Fritillaria regia L.
  • Ornithogalum nanum (Burm.f.) Thunb.
  • Whiteheadia nana (Burm.f.) J.W.Ingram

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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