Kabuyea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{speciesbox | image = Kabuyea.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author= Eastern Arc Mountains & Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project |date=2009 |title= ''Kabuyea hostifolia'' |volume=2009 |article-number= e.T158144A5186907 |doi= 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T158144A5186907.en |access-date=4 June 2023}}</ref> | genus = Kabuyea | parent_authority = Brummitt | species = hostifolia | authority = (Engl.) Brummitt | synonyms_ref = <ref name=a/> | synonyms = *''Cyanastrum hostifolium'' <small>Engl.</small> *''Cyanastrum bussei'' <small>Engl.</small> }}

'''''Kabuyea''''' is a plant genus in the family Tecophilaeaceae, first described as a genus in 1998. It has one known species, '''''Kabuyea hostifolia''''', native to Tanzania and Mozambique.<ref name=a>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=279785 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>Pope, G.V. (ed.) (2001). Flora Zambesiaca 12(3): 1-106. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref>

==Description== ''Kabuyea hostifolia'' has a corm that lacks a protective tunic. The leaves are all basal and usually number four, both the leaves and the inflorescence emerging from the same corm-scale, and being present simultaneously. The inflorescence is a raceme, each floret having white tepals and parts in sixes.<ref name=Kubitzki>{{cite book|author=Klaus Kubitzki|title=Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSfrCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA434 |year=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-662-03533-7 |page=434}}</ref>

The species is named in honor of Ugandan ethnobotanist Christine H. Sophie Kabuye.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Brummitt |first1=R. K. |last2=Banks |first2=Hannah |last3=Johnson |first3=Margaret A. T. |last4=Docherty |first4=Katharine A. |last5=Jones |first5=Keith |last6=Chase |first6=Mark W. |last7=Rudall |first7=Paula J. |date=1998 |title=Taxonomy of Cyanastroideae (Tecophilaeaceae): A Multidisciplinary Approach |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=769–803 |doi=10.2307/4118869 |jstor=4118869 |bibcode=1998KewBu..53..769B |issn=0075-5974}}</ref>

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Category:Flora of Tanzania Category:Flora of Mozambique Category:Monotypic Asparagales genera Category:Asparagales genera Category:Taxa named by Adolf Engler Category:Tecophilaeaceae