Hannonia

You can be forgiven for perhaps not having heard of Hannonia which is a rare and little-seen native of N. Africa, limited in the wild to rock-fissure and crags in a small area of western Morocco. It is said to grow on promontories around the Pillars of Hercules but it appears to have been described originally from the more westerly and southerly region on the Atlantic coast, around Cape Ghir.

It is a monotypic genus with only one species H. hesperidium and it is something of a relict from the early days in the evolution of the Amaryllidaceae.  It is distantly related both to Pancratium and Lapiedra, but is it is clearly distinct from both of those. It seems to be an hangover from bygone days when it, or its relatives, were more widespread across the shores of the Mediterranean, before man and his familiar, the goat, turned the Sahara into a desert and forced the flora and fauna to either flee or face extinction.