Drimia zambesiaca


Drimia zambesaica is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is a bulbous geophyte native to tropical and southern Africa, ranging from Mauritania to Ethiopia and south to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Specimens were previously misidentified as Drimia indica. In 2018 Crouch et al. described a new species and monotypic genus, Zingela pooleyorum. In 2019 John C. Manning discovered that Z. pooleyorum was identical with a 1994 description of Urginea zambesiaca by Kativu and Drummond. Manning placed the species in the genus Drimia, with the older specific epithet zambesaica taking precedence.