Editing Colchicum (section)

==Relationships==
''[[Colchicum melanthioides]]'', also known as ''Androcymbium melanthioides'',<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-346509 |title=The Plant List |accessdate=27 May 2016}}</ref> is probably the best known species from the [[tropics|tropical]] regions. In contrast to most temperate colchicums, the flower and leaves are produced at the same time, the white flowers usually in a small corymb that is enclosed by white bracts. Close relatives such as ''[[Colchicum scabromarginatum]]'' (''Androcymbium scabromarginatum'') and ''[[Colchicum coloratum]]'' (''Androcymbium burchellii'') have flowers with very short stalks and may be pollinated by [[rodent]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Ciara Kleizen, Jeremy Midgley & Steven D. Johnson |year=2008 |title=Pollination systems of ''Colchicum'' (Colchicaceae) in Southern Africa: evidence for rodent pollination |journal=[[Annals of Botany]] |volume=102 |issue=5 |pages=747–755 |doi=10.1093/aob/mcn157 |pmid=18723860 |pmc=2712380}}</ref>