Hypoxis Description

Hypoxis, a acclaimed brand of the ancestors Hypoxidaceae, calmly apparent by its ablaze chicken star-shaped flowers and strap-like leaves, has a continued history of alleviative use on the African abstemious and is currently getting used in South Africa in primary bloom affliction as an allowed booster for patients with HIV/AIDS.

Hypoxis has an appraisal of 90 breed all-embracing and is about catholic in distribution, occurring in Africa, North and South America, southeastern Asia and Australia. In Africa, the brand is boundless south of the Sahara, with a absorption of about 41 breed in southern Africa. Hypoxis is primarily a summer condensate brand with a ample amount of breed in the eastern arena of South Africa. Seven breed action in the Cape winter condensate region, none of which are ancient to the region. Eleven breed of the 41 breed are civil endemics, getting belted to altitudes college than 1 000 m admitting the actual breed extend from the bank to the autogenous of southern Africa. Hypoxis is predominantly a acreage genus, preferring abounding sunlight. A few breed abound on bluff faces or in backwoods shade.

Hypoxis flowers are brief and are pollinated by aloof and honey bees. Pollen grains in Hypoxis are chicken and are arresting through the cellophane pollen sacs of honey bees visiting flowers. The fruiting abridged in Hypoxis, alleged a pyxis, splits forth its bore and the high allocation of the abridged drops off, advertisement the atramentous seeds. In a few breed such as H. angustifolia, the actual lower allocation of the abridged splits added longitudinally to aid dispersal.