Asparagaceae
Drimia

Drimia maritima (L.) Stearn

First published in Ann. Mus. Goulandris 4: 204 (1978)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Iberian Peninsula to Baleares, NW. Algeria. It is a bulbous geophyte and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Algeria, Baleares, Portugal, Spain

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Chaudhary, S.A. (2001). Flora of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 3: 1-368. Ministry of Agriculture & Water, Riyadh.
  • Dimopoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
  • Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
  • Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.

Kew Species Profiles

  • Baumann, H. (1993). Greek Wild Flowers and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece. Herbert Press, London.
  • Chevalier, A. (1953). Action raticide des extraits de la Scille maritime d'Algerie ou Urginea maritima (L.) Baker. Rev. Int. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 33: 598-599.
  • Crabtree, D.G. (1947). Red squill – most specific of the raticides. Econ. Bot.1: 394-401.
  • Edmondson, J.R. (1984). Urginia Steinh. In: Flora of Turkey Volume 8, ed. P.H. Davis, p. 213. Edinburgh.
  • Galt, A.H. & Galt, J.W. (1978). Peasant use of some wild plants on the island of Pantelleria, Sicily. Econ. Bot. 32: 20-26.
  • Gentry, H.S., Verbiscar, A.J. & Banigan, T.F. (1987). Red squill ( Urginea maritima, Liliaceae). Econ. Bot. 41: 267-282.
  • Mabberley, D.J. (2008). Mabberley’s Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses. Third edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. (2008) Seed Information Database (SID). Version 7.1.
  • Sims, J. (1806). Ornithogalum squilla. Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 23: tab. 918.
  • Stearn, W.T. (1978). Mediterranean and Indian species of Drimia (Liliaceae): a nomenclatural survey with special reference to the medicinal squill, D. maritima (syn. Urginia maritima). Ann. Mus. Goulandris 4: 199–210.
  • Townsend, C.C. & Guest, E. (eds) (1985). Flora of Iraq. Volume 8: Monocotyledons excluding Gramineae (Hutchinson, 1959). Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
  • World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010). The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Speta, F. (1980). Karyosystematik, Kultur und Verwendung de Meerzwiebel (Urginea Steinh., Liliaceae s.l.). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 12: 193-238.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Urginea scilla K:SPC-70000.586 No
Urginea scilla K:SPC-70000.587 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Kew Species Profiles

    • Kew Species Profiles
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  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

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