Hypoxis angustifoliaLam.

WFO wfo-0000668192 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Hypoxis angustifolia, photographed by Sunčana Bradley
fig. a Sunčana Bradley, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-25 / obs. 165990216
Hypoxis angustifolia, photographed by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
fig. b Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 165163937
Hypoxis angustifolia, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. c Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119359781
Hypoxis angustifolia, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. d Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106214401
Hypoxis angustifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63998484
Hypoxis angustifolia, photographed by Peter Warren
fig. f Peter Warren, CC0 1.0 / obs. 71463508
Hypoxis angustifolia, photographed by Peter Warren
fig. g Peter Warren, CC0 1.0 / obs. 57446851
Hypoxis angustifolia, photographed by Nicola van Berkel
fig. h Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 34790909

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Hypoxis angustifolia is native: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Réunion, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Yemen AngolaBurundiCameroonCape ProvincesCentral African RepublicChadCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEswatiniEthiopiaFree StateGabonGhanaGuineaKenyaKwaZulu-NatalLesothoLiberiaMadagascarMalawiMozambiqueNigeriaNorthern ProvincesRwandaSierra LeoneSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaUgandaZambiaZimbabweYemen MauritiusRéunion
Native distribution of Hypoxis angustifolia, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Cape Provinces CPP
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Eswatini SWZ
Ethiopia ETH
Free State OFS
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Liberia LBR
Madagascar MDG
Malawi MLW
Mauritius MAU
Mozambique MOZ
Nigeria NGA
Northern Provinces TVL
Réunion REU
Rwanda RWA
Sierra Leone SIE
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM
Yemen YEM ASIA-TEMPERATE

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 138 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 3.6 °C 10.9 °C 17.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.0 °C 25.6 °C 29.4 °C
Annual rainfall 685 mm 1,018 mm 2,768 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 15 mm 99 mm 278 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 138 research-grade observations of Hypoxis angustifolia that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 4 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.

  • Hypoxis biflora Baker
  • Hypoxis luzuloides Robyns & Tournay
  • Hypoxis obliqua var. woodii (Baker) Nel
  • Hypoxis woodii Baker

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.