Haemanthus humilis

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Haemanthus humilis, photographed by Ricus Nel — fig. b Ricus Nel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192387187

Haemanthus humilis, photographed by Tony Rebelo — fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 179868531

Haemanthus humilis, photographed by James Deacon — fig. e James Deacon, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 116768779

Haemanthus humilis, photographed by Matthew Fainman — fig. h Matthew Fainman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77432579

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Haemanthus humilis, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Botswana	BOT	AFRICA
Cape Provinces	CPP
Free State	OFS
KwaZulu-Natal	NAT
Lesotho	LES
Northern Provinces	TVL

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.

Flowering 80 in flower of 108 examined

84%

27%

33%

100%

94%

Proportion of examined Haemanthus humilis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	36	43	84%	70% to 92%
Feb	4	15	27%	11% to 52%
Mar	0	3	too few examined
Apr	2	6	33%	10% to 70%
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	1	too few examined
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	1	1	too few examined
Nov	6	6	100%	61% to 100%
Dec	30	32	94%	80% to 98%

Peak flowering in Nov. Each bar is the share of Haemanthus humilis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 80 of 108 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 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.

Haemanthus arnottii Baker
Haemanthus brevifolius Herb.
Haemanthus candidus Hort.Bull.
Haemanthus hirsutus Baker
Haemanthus nelsonii Baker
Haemanthus strigosus Herb.
Melicho humilis Salisb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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