Carpolyza (Salisb.) Snijman, 2021

Manning, John & Snijman, Deidre, 2021, The correct author citation for taxa in Strumaria and changes to subgenera in Strumaria and Hessea (Amaryllidaceae: Amaryllideae), with a synopsis of the actinomorphic- of subtribe Strumariinaeflowered genera, Bothalia (a 9) 51 (2), pp. 1-5 : 3

Subgenus Carpolyza (Salisb.) Snijman [validated above]. Carpolyza Salisb. : 63 (1807). Type: Carpolyza spiralis (L’Hérit.) Salisb.

Bulb tunics thinly fibrous, whitish. Cataphyll absent. Foliage leaves 4 to 6, spreading, filiform, glabrous. Scape ± spirally twisted proximally, persisting beyond seed release. Flowers funnel-shaped, pedicels shorter to much longer than perianth, tepals connate into a short tube basally, filaments decurrent on perianth tube with inner whorl shortly adnate to style, anthers subcentrifixed, style somewhat 3- angled. Chromosome base number x = 10.

1 sp.: S. spiralis (L’Hérit.) Aiton

Subgenus Tedingea (D.Müll.-Doblies & U.Müll.-Doblies) Snijman in Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium 16: 86 (1994). Tedingea D.Müll. -Doblies & U.Müll.- Doblies: 45 (1985). Type: S. tenella (L.f.) Snijman Bulb tunics softly fibrous, whitish. Cataphyll present or absent. Foliage leaves 2 to 6, spreading, filiform, glabrous. Scape often proximally flexed or spirally twisted, usually persisting during seed release. Flowers stellate, rarely somewhat campanulate, pedicels much exceeding perianth length, tepals free, filaments separate, both whorls adnate to swollen style base, anthers dorsifixed. Chromosome base number x = 10.

2 spp.: S. pygmaea Snijman , S. tenella (L.f.) Snijman subsp. tenella , S. tenella subsp. orientalis Snijman