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	Drimia numidica (JORD. & FOURR.) J.C.MANNING & GOLDBLATT

APG-Fam.: Asparagacae / Asparagus Fam. Fam. tradit.: Liliaceae / Lily Fam.

Synon.: Urginea maritima BAKER var. numidica (JORD. & FOURR.) MAIRE & WEILLER, Charybdis numidica (JORD. & FOURR.) SPETA, Squilla numidica JORD. & FOURR.

Genus: Drimia JACQ., Urginea STEINH., Charybdis SPETA, Squilla L.

Authors:
	JORD.:	Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814 - 1897), French botanist
	FOURR.:	Jules Pierre Fourreau (1844 - 1871), French botanist
	J.C.MANNING:	John Charles Manning (1962 - ), South African botanist
	GOLDBLATT:	Peter Goldblatt (1943 - ), South African botanist who is working in the USA
	BAKER:	John Gilbert Baker (1834 - 1920), English botanist
	MAIRE:	René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire (1878 - 1949), French botanist
	WEILLER:	Marc Weiller (1880 - 1945), French botanist
	SPETA:	Franz Speta (1941 - 2015), Austrian botanist
	JACQ.:	Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727 - 1817), Austrian chemist and botanist
	STEINH.:	Adolphe Steinheil (1810 - 1839), French pharmacist and botanist
	L.:	Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals

Etymology:
	Drimia:	drimys = acrid
	numidica:	from the country of the Numidians in Northern Africa
	Urginea:	from the name of an Arabic clan in Algeria
	maritima:	from the sea
	Charybdis:	In Greek mythology the rock opposite of the Scilla (Skylla)
	Squilla:	small shrimp

For long time the Sea Squills in the whole Mediterranean and adjacent regions were taken as one species Urginea maritima, althouth it was known that the onions in different regions have different form, different color of the skin and flesh, different substances, and different chromosome numbers. In 1980 FRANZ SPETA started to launch the separation into different species:
maritima: Southern part of Iberian peninsula, parts of Morokko.
hesperia: Canarians.
maura: High Atlas in Morokko.
???: Sicily, Western Italy, parts of the Balearic islands, Northern Spain.
pancration: parts of the Balearic islands, Sardinia, Corse, Southern Italy, Malta, Libya
numidica: Big parts of Northern Africa, Egypt, parts of the Balearic islands and of Spain, parts of Southern Italy, Greece except the Aegean islands.
aphylla: From the Greek Aegean islands and Turkey to the Arabic peninsula.

Also SPETA chose the genus name Charybdis for the Mediterranian Sea Squills in 1998, while MANNING and GOLDBLATT united these with African Drimia species.