Overview
Herbs perennial, rarely shrubby or treelike, often with bulbs, corms, rhizomes, or tubers. Leaves basal or cauline, often narrow, margin entire or spiny. Inflorescence a terminal spike, umbel, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, usually subtended by 1 to several spathaceous involucres. Peri anth segments 6, in 2 whorls, free or connate to form a short tube, with or without a corona. Stamens 6, inserted at perianth throat or at base of segments; filaments sometimes basally connate; anther dorsifixed or basifixed, mostly introrse. Ovary inferior, 3-loculed; ovules few to many per locule; placentation axile. Style slender; stigma capitate or 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, usually loculicidal, sometimes dehiscing irregularly, rarely a berry. Seeds with endosperm.
More than 100 genera and 1200 species: tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions worldwide; ten genera and 34 species (14 endemic, four introduced) in China.[1]
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Taxonomy
The Family Amaryllidaceae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subfamily (60): Abietoideae · Acanthoideae · Agapanthoideae · Ajugoideae · Allioideae · Alsinoideae · Asteroideae · Bombinae · Cactoideae · Capparoideae · Caryophylloideae · Cichorioideae · Citroideae · Coliadinae · Cooperiinae · Coryphoideae · Crassuloideae · Cyperoideae · Cyrtandroideae · Ennominae · Epidendroideae · Ericoideae · Euphorbioideae · Faboideae · Gesnerioideae · Grevilleoideae · Helleboroideae · Hyacinthoideae · Hydrangeoideae · Iridoideae · Isopyroideae · Ixioideae · Larinae · Lilioideae · Magnolioideae · Malvoideae · Mimosoideae · Nepetoideae · Papaveroideae · Polemonioideae · Pooideae · Potentilloideae · Pyroideae · Ranunculoideae · Rhinanthoideae · Rhododendroideae · Rosoideae · Rubioideae · Scrophularioi deae · Sedoideae · Solanoideae · Spiraeoideae · Theoideae · Thymelaeoideae · Tillandsioideae · Trollioideae · Ulmoideae · Vaccinioideae · Violoideae · Wurmbeoideae
- Tribe (25): Amaryllideae · Anemoneae · Banksieae · Cyrtantheae · Eucharideae · Euphorbieae · Eustephieae · Galantheae · Gethyllideae · Haemantheae · Hippeastreae · Hylocereeae · Irideae · Lycorideae · Malveae · Narcisseae · Nepeteae · Pancratieae · Polemonieae · Rhododendreae · Sedeae · Solaneae · Spiraeeae · Stenomesseae · Zephyrantheae
- Subtribe (2): Aeridinae · Oncidiinae
- Genus (247): Abapus · Acis · Aidema · Ajax · Amarcrinum · Amarine · Amarygia · Amaryllis · Ammocharis · Anax · Androstephanos · Anoiganthus · Apodolirion · Arenaria · Argenope · Argolasia · Argyropsis · Arviela · Aschamia · Assaracus · Atamasco · Atamosco · Aulica · Aurelia · Aurota · Autogenes · Bathya · Belladonna · Bokkeveldia · Bollaea · Bonapartea · Boophane · Boophone · Bravoa · Braxireon · Brunsdonna · Brunserine · Brunsvigia · Buphane · Calicharis · Caliphruria · Callicore · Callipsyche · Callithamna · Callithauma · Calostemma · Campylonema · Carpodetes · Carpolyza · Carregnoa · Castellanoa · Cearanthes · Cearia · Cepa · Chaetocapnia · Chapmanolirion · Chianthemum · Chione · Chlidanthus · Chloraster · Choananthus · Choeradodia · Chonais · Choretis · Chrysiphiala · Clinanthus · Clitanthes · Cliveucharis · Clivia · Coburgia · Coetocapnia · Coleophyllum · Collania · Coobranthus · Cooperanthes · Cooperia · Corbularia · Crimocharis · Crindonna · Crinodonna · Crinum · Crocopsis · Crossyne · Cryptostephanus · Cybistetes · Cydenis · Cyphonema · Cyrtanthus · Danbya · Demeusea · Dewinterella · Diacles · Diomedes · Diphalangium · Dodecasperma · Eithea · Elisena · Erigone · Erinosma · Eucharis · Eucrosia · Eudolon · Eurycles · Eusarcops · Eusipho · Eustephia · Eustephiopsis · Fabricia · Famatina · Forbesia · Fourcroya · Franquevillea · Funium · Galanthus · Galatea · Gasteronema · Gastronema · Gemmaria · Gethyllis · Griffinia · Gyaxis · Gymnoterpe · Habranthus · Haemanthus · Hakonechloa · Halmyra · Hannonia · Haylockia · Helena · Hermione · Hieronymiella · Himantophyllum · Hippeastrum · Hyline · Hymenetron · Hymenocallis · Illus · Imantophyllum · Imatophyllum · Imhofia · Indosasa · Ismene · Jaimehintonia · Janthe · Jonquilla · Kamiesbergia · Klingia · Kolpakowskia · Lais · Lapiedra · Laticoma · Leichtlinia · Leopoldia · Leperiza · Lepidopharynx · Leptochiton · Leucodesmis · Leucoium · Leucojum · Leucothauma · Libonia · Lilavia · Liriamus · Liriopsis · Loxanthes · Lycoris · Mangave · Mathieua · Melicho · Mesochloa · Miltinea · Mizonia · Moldenkea · Monella · Moskerion · Myobranthus · Myostemma · Namaquanula · Narcibularia · Narcissus · Neaera · Nemepiodon · Neostricklandia · Nerine · Nivaria · Oileus · Omphalissa · Oporanthus · Pamianthe · Pancratium · Papiria · Paramongaia · Patrocles · Pentlandia · Periphanes · Phaedranassa · Philogyne · Phycella · Placea · Plagiolirion · Plectronema · Pogonema · Polyanthemum · Proiphys · Prototulbaghia · Pseudostenomesson · Pucara · Pyrolirion · Queltia · Radia · Rauhia · Rhodolirium · Rhodophiala · Roezlia · Ruminia · Satyrium · Scadoxus · Sceptranthes · Scleropoa · Serena · Sphaerine · Sphaerotele · Sprekelia · Stenbergia · Stenolirion · Stenomesson · Sternbergia · Strumaria · Tapeinanthus · Tedingea · Tityrus · Tocantinia · Traubia · Ungernia · Urceocharis · Urceolina · Vagaria · Vaginaria · Vallota · Valota · Worsleya · X Amarcrinum · X Amarine · X Amarygia · X Hippeastrelia · Zephyranthes · Zetocapnia
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 29,984 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Family Amaryllidaceae.
Genera
Abapus
Acis
A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]
Aidema
Ajax
Amarcrinum
??Amarcrinum is the scientific name applied to those hybrid plants obtained from the cross between the genera Amaryllis and Crinum. These plants have tidy leaves and bear large umbels of long lasting, fragrant flowers on tall scapes during late summer and autumn. [more]
Amarine
Amarygia
Amaryllis
Amaryllis " class="IPA">/?m?'r?l?s/) is a small genus of flowering bulbs, with two species. The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape. For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name "amaryllis" is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors. Plants of the genus Amaryllis are known as belladonna lily, naked lady, or amarillo. [more]
Ammocharis
Ammocharis is a genus in the Amaryllidaceae family (subfamily Amaryllidoideae) which includes 6 species distributed in Africa. The plant grows as a succulent, above-ground bulb, preferring seasonally wet, hot, sandy soils and full sun. [more]
Anax
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[2] [more]
Androstephanos
Anoiganthus
Cyrtanthus is a genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae). This highly ornamental genus encompasses about 60 species. It is endemic in the southern and eastern parts of Africa and is represented in all nine provinces of South Africa, with the highest concentration of species occurring in the southern parts of Eastern Cape. The name Cyrtanthus refers to the curved perianth tube of many of the species and is derived from the Greek kyrtos meaning curved and anthos meaning flower. This genus is highly valued horticulturally. Species differ greatly in the color, size, shape and position of the flowers. [more]
Apodolirion
Apodolirion is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae). It consists of 6 species distributed in South Africa. The name Apodolirion cames from the Greek and means "stemless flower" and describes the fact that these species have almost sessile flowers. [more]
Arenaria
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[3] [more]
Argenope
Argolasia
Argyropsis
Arviela
Aschamia
Assaracus
Atamasco
Atamosco
Aulica
Aurelia
Aurelia (Latin,"golden") is a feminine given name. It was the name given to women of the gens Aurelia in ancient Rome. Aurelia may refer to: [more]
Aurota
Autogenes
Bathya
Belladonna
Atropa belladonna , commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, is a perennial herbaceous plant with leaves and berries that are extremely toxic and hallucinogenic. [more]
Bokkeveldia
Bollaea
Bonapartea
Boophane
Boophone
Bravoa
Bravoa is an genus of Agavaceae family. [more]
Braxireon
Brunsdonna
Brunserine
Brunsvigia
Brunsvigia is a genus in the family Amaryllidaceae. It contains about 20 species native to South Africa. [more]
Buphane
Calicharis
Caliphruria
Callicore
Callipsyche
Callithamna
Callithauma
Calostemma
Campylonema
Carpodetes
Carpolyza
Carregnoa
Castellanoa
Cearanthes
Cearia
Cepa
Chaetocapnia
Chapmanolirion
Chianthemum
Chione
A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Chlidanthus
Chloraster
Choananthus
Choeradodia
Chonais
Choretis
Chrysiphiala
Clinanthus
Clitanthes
Cliveucharis
Clivia
Clivia is a of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the family Amaryllidaceae. Common names include Kaffir lily and bush lily. [more]
Coburgia
Coetocapnia
Coleophyllum
Collania
Coobranthus
Cooperanthes
Cooperia
A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Corbularia
Crimocharis
Crindonna
Crinodonna
Crinum
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from bulbs with elongate columnar apices. Leaves basal, thick; blade lorate or ensiform, not narrowed near base. Scape solid. Inflorescences umbellate, few- to many-flowered, subtended by 2 large, lanceolate, scarious bracts. Flowers sessile or pedicellate; perianth connate proximally, red to white, often striped, streaked, or overlaid with red abaxially, funnelform to salverform to semicampanulate, tube straight to curved, ca. same length as limb lobes; stamens inserted on perianth tube throat; filaments thin, often declinate; ovary inferior, globose; style slender; stigma capitate. Fruits capsular, globose or subglobose, usually prominently beaked. Seeds fleshy, testa often corky.[4] [more]
Crocopsis
Crossyne
Cryptostephanus
Cybistetes
Cydenis
Cyphonema
Cyrtanthus
A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]
Danbya
Demeusea
Dewinterella
Diacles
Diomedes
Diomedes or Diomed (: ; English translation: "God-like cunning" or "advised by Zeus") is a hero in Greek mythology, mostly known for his participation in the Trojan War. He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his maternal grandfather, Adrastus. In Homer's Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax as the second-best warriors of all the Achaeans. His paternal uncle Heracles and his close companion Odysseus are the favoured heroes of Athena. In Virgil's Aeneid he is one of the warriors who entered the Trojan Horse shortly before the sack of Troy. [more]
Diphalangium
Dodecasperma
Eithea
Elisena
Erigone
Erinosma
Eucharis
A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Eucrosia
Eucrosia is a genus of , perennial and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae) distributed from Ecuador to Peru. It contains eight species. Phaedranassa and Rauhia are the genera closest related to Eucrosia. [more]
Eudolon
Eurycles
Eusarcops
Eusipho
Eustephia
Eustephiopsis
Fabricia
Famatina
A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]
Forbesia
Fourcroya
Franquevillea
Funium
Galanthus
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from brown, tunicate, ovoid to globose bulbs; offset bulbs often present. Leaves 2(-3), basal, opposite, with sheathing blade, vernation flat and parallel, or convolute; nonsheathing blade erect to recurving at maturity, grayish green, linear-oblanceolate, glaucous; sheathing blade white, tubular, membranous, enclosing leaf bases and scape. Scape erect in flower, prostrate in fruit, green, solid. Inflorescences pendulous, 1-flowered, spathaceous; spathe bracteate, membranous; bracts 2, connate, split on 1 side. Flowers nodding, fragrant; perianath 2.5 cm or shorter; tepals 6, distinct, unequal; outer tepals spreading, white, narrowly obovate to almost orbicular, larger than inner; inner tepals overlapping, appearing tubular, green-spotted at apex only or apex and base, straight to semiorbicular, apex notched; stamens 6, inserted at bases of tepals, distinct; anthers basifixed, longer than filaments, bases lobed, apices tapered, dehiscense introrse, via terminal slits; ovary inferior, green, 3-locular, globose, septal nectaries present; style, white, unbranched, filiform; stigma indistinct to minutely capitate; pedicel wiry, short, slender. Fruits capsular, green, globose, fleshy, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds 18-36, light brown, 3.5 mm, oblong to obtuse, elaiosomes fleshy. x = 12.[5] [more]
Galatea
Gasteronema
Gastronema
Gemmaria
A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Gethyllis
Griffinia
Gyaxis
Gymnoterpe
Habranthus
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from bulbs. Bulbs black or brown, tunicate, ovoid or globose, sometimes with long neck. Leaves deciduous, sessile, erect or recumbent, bases overlapping, sheathing; blade linear, rarely exceeding 2 cm wide, smooth. Scape hollow. Inflorescences umbellate, 1[-4]-flowered, spathaceous; spathe proximally tubular; bracteoles sometimes present. Flowers declinate [to suberect], somewhat zygomorphic; perianth connate proximally, funnelform, shortly tubular basally, 2-8 cm; tepals subequal; filaments inserted on tepals distal to perianth tube, fasciculate [semifasciculate], declinate and recurving distally, filiform, in sets of 4 different lengths; anthers submedially dorsifixed, usually parallel with floral axis, linear-oblong; ovary inferior; style filiform; stigma 3-fid, lobes linear; pedicel rarely absent, hollow. Fruits capsular, 3-locular, thin-walled, subglobose or ± oblate. Seeds numerous, dark brown to black, flat, D-shaped, obliquely winged, lustrous. x = 6.[6] [more]
Haemanthus
Haemanthus is a Southern African genus of with some 22 known species, endemic to South Africa, Namibia and the kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland. About 15 species occur in the winter rainfall region of Namaqualand and the Western Cape, the remainder being found in the summer rainfall region, with one species Haemanthus albiflos occurring in both regions. [more]
Hakonechloa
Hakonechloa is a genus of grasses of the Arundinoideae. [more]
Halmyra
Hannonia
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Haylockia
Helena
A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]
Hermione
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[7] [more]
Hieronymiella
Himantophyllum
Hippeastrum
Herbs, perennial, scapose, glabrous, from globose bulbs. Leaves few, basal; blade liguliform, fleshy, parallel-veined, margins entire, apex tapering. Scape hollow. Inflorescences umbellate, bracteate; bracts 2, scarious. Flowers spreading to slightly drooping, syntepalous; perianth connate proximally, funnelform to campanulate, with minute corona reduced to small crown inserted on throat of tube; tepals 6 in 2 whorls of 3, outer slightly shorter than inner; stamens inserted on perianth tube, declinate, subequal; filaments slender; ovary inferior, ellipsoid; style slender, ca. equaling tepals; stigma capitate or slightly 3-lobed. Fruits capsular, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds few to many.[8] [more]
Hyline
Hymenetron
Hymenocallis
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from bulbs. Bulb 1, ovoid or globose, tunicate, often extending into neck of clasping, distichous leaf bases. Leaves 2-16, deciduous or evergreen, sessile, rarely petiolate; blade narrowly to widely liguliform or oblanceolate, rarely ovate to elliptic. Scape: bracts 2-3, triangular, ovate, or lanceolate. Inflorescences umbellate, bracteate; each flower with subtending, often narrowly lanceolate bract. Flowers 1-16, usually sessile, erect or slightly diverging, large and starlike, fragrant; perianth connate basally into short or long tube, surmounted by conspicuous staminal corona; tepals extending from base of corona, free portions reflexed or ascending, often distally recurved, linear; stamens adnate basally into showy funnelform or rotate corona, margins between free portions of filaments often dentate or lacerate, portions of filaments inserted on margin of corona, erect to incurved, filiform; anthers versatile, introrse, pollen yellow, often golden, or orange; ovary inferior, globose, ovoid, oblong, or pyriform, ovules 2-10 per locule; style exserted beyond stamens, deflexed laterally, filiform; stigma capitate. Fruits capsular, green, subglobose to elongate, 3-locular, large, leathery. Seeds large, green, fleshy. x = 20, 23.[9] [more]
Illus
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[10] [more]
Imantophyllum
Imatophyllum
Imhofia
Indosasa
Arborescent bamboos, sometimes shrubby. Rhizomes leptomorph, with running underground stems. Culms diffuse, erect to nodding; internodes substantially grooved above branches; wall thick, cavity with granular or spongy pith; nodes prominent. Mid-culm branches 3, subequal or central dominant. Culm sheaths deciduous, leathery or thickly papery, setose; ligule truncate; blade large, triangular or lanceolate, rarely strap-shaped. Leaves usually medium to large-sized, transverse veins distinct. Inflorescence fully bracteate, partially iterauctant, lateral, racemose, sessile, prophyllate. Spikelets many flowered, gradually enlarged; basal bracts and glumes often with basal axillary buds developed into secondary spikelets; basal 1-4 florets sometimes sterile. Glumes usually 2; lemma larger and broader than glumes, many veined; palea obtuse, 2-keeled; lodicules 3, subequal. Stamens 6; filaments free. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid or fusiform; style short; stigmas 3, plumose. Fruit a caryopsis, ovoid to ellipsoid, beaked. New shoots spring-early summer.[11] [more]
Ismene
A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]
Jaimehintonia
Janthe
Jonquilla
Kamiesbergia
Klingia
Kolpakowskia
Lais
A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]
Lapiedra
Laticoma
Leichtlinia
Leopoldia
Leperiza
Lepidopharynx
Leptochiton
Leucodesmis
Leucoium
Leucojum
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from brown, globose to ovoid, tunicate bulb. Leaves several; blade linear-ligulate, base sheathing. Scape stout, hollow [slender, solid]. Inflorescences umbellate, 2-5(-7) -flowered, spathaceous; spathe bracts 2, free or entirely adnate on 1 side, appearing monophyllous. Flowers nodding; perianth campanulate; tepals 6, distinct, oblanceolate to ovate, equal; stamens 6, distinct; anthers basifixed, conic, longer than filaments, blunt apically, dehiscing by terminal pores; ovary inferior, green, 3-locular, globose, septal nectaries present; style filiform or clavate, exceeding anthers; stigma minutely capitate. Fruits capsular, erect, pyriform to subglobose, dehiscence loculicidal; pericarp somewhat fleshy. Seeds numerous, black, appendages absent. x = 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.[12] [more]
Leucothauma
Libonia
Justicia is a genus of about 420 species of in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of the Americas, with two species occurring north into cooler temperate regions. Common names include water-willow and shrimp plant, the latter from the inflorescences, which resemble a shrimp in some species. [more]
Lilavia
Liriamus
Liriopsis
Loxanthes
Lycoris
Herbs perennial, bulbiferous. Bulbs subglobose to ovoid; tunic brown to black-brown. Leaves appearing before or after anthesis, ligulate. Flowering stem erect, simple, solid. Umbel terminal, 4--8-flowered; involucres 2, membranous. Perianth white, creamy, gold, pink, or bright red, funnelform; lobes oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, margin sometimes undulate; ring of 6 perianthal scales or fimbriae sometimes present at throat of tube. Stamens inserted at throat of perianth tube; filament filiform; anther versatile. Ovary with few ovules. Style slender; stigma capitate, very small. Fruit a capsule, 3-valved, usually 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds black, subglobose.[13] [more]
Mangave
Mathieua
Melicho
Mesochloa
Miltinea
Mizonia
Moldenkea
Monella
Moskerion
Myobranthus
Myostemma
Namaquanula
Narcibularia
Narcissus
Herbs perennial, scapose, from ovoid, tunicate bulbs. Leaves (1-) several; blade linear to ligulate, flat to semiterete, fleshy. Inflorescences umbellate in clusters of 2-20, or solitary, spathaceous; spathe 1-valved, enclosing buds, membranous or papery. Flowers pedicellate or sessile, erect or declinate, often fragrant; tepals 6, connate proximally, distinct and reflexed to ascending distally, yellow and/or white; perianth tube surmounted by a cupular to trumpetlike corona with margins often frilled; stamens 6, epitepalous, often of 2 lengths; filaments separate from corona; anthers basifixed; ovary inferior, 3-locular; style often exserted; stigma minutely 3-lobed. Fruits capsular, 3-locular, papery to leathery, dehiscence loculidical. Seeds numerous, subglobose, often with elaiosomes; testa black. x = 7, 11.[14] [more]
Neaera
Neaera, Neæra, or Neaira can refer to: [more]
Nemepiodon
Neostricklandia
Nerine
A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Nivaria
Oileus
Omphalissa
Oporanthus
Pamianthe
Pamianthe is a genus of in family Amaryllidaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]
Pancratium
Herbs perennial, bulbiferous. Leaves basal, sessile, linear or ligulate. Flowering stem solid. Inflorescences umbellate, 1- to many flowered; involucres 2. Pedicel often short. Perianth subfunnelform; lobes 6, spreading, lanceolate or linear. Stamens inserted at throat of perianth tube; filaments connate into a cup for most of their length but apically free; anthers versatile, linear. Ovary with many ovules. Style filiform; stigma capitate, sometimes somewhat 3-lobed to -branched, small. Fruit a capsule, 3-valved, loculicidal. Seeds black, angular.[15] [more]
Papiria
Paramongaia
Patrocles
Pentlandia
Periphanes
Phaedranassa
Phaedranassa is a genus of in family Amaryllidaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]
Philogyne
Phycella
Placea
Plagiolirion
Plectronema
Pogonema
Polyanthemum
Proiphys
Prototulbaghia
Pseudostenomesson
Pucara
Pyrolirion
Queltia
Radia
Rauhia
Rhodolirium
Rhodophiala
Roezlia
Ruminia
Satyrium
Scadoxus
Sceptranthes
Scleropoa
Serena
Sphaerine
Sphaerotele
Sprekelia
Sprekelia is a of about 1-2 of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, or Alliaceae. They are native to Central America. Like, Hippeastrum, these plants were known as Amaryllis. The Sprekelia is sometimes called the "Aztec lily", although it is not a true lily. Sprekelia formosissima is common in cultivation, planted in warm climates or raised in pots in colder climates, or planted and lifted, much as gladiolus. Even when well grown, bulbs often don't bloom every year. In a grouping of a dozen or so bulbs, only two or three may bloom in any given year. [more]
Stenbergia
Stenolirion
Stenomesson
Sternbergia
A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Strumaria
Strumaria is a genus of in family Amaryllidaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]
Tapeinanthus
Tedingea
Tityrus
Tocantinia
Traubia
Ungernia
Urceocharis
Urceolina
Vagaria
Vaginaria
Vallota
Vallota is a of the plant family Amaryllidaceae. It includes the Scarborough Lily (V. speciosa, sometimes listed as V. purpurea). [more]
Valota
Worsleya
X Amarcrinum
X Amarine
X Amarygia
X Hippeastrelia
Zephyranthes
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from bulbs. Bulbs black or brown, tunicate, ovoid or globose, sometimes with long neck. Leaves sessile, erect or recumbent, with overlapping sheathing bases; blade linear, rarely exceeding 1 cm wide, smooth. Scape hollow. Inflorescence 1-flowered (rarely 2-flowered in Z. drummondii), spathaceous, otherwise ebracteate; spathe proximally tubular. Flowers erect to declinate, actinomorphic; perianth subrotate to funnelform to salverform, connate basally into tube, 2-16 cm; tepals subequal; stamens 6, of 2 different lengths, appearing equal or subequal (anthers in 2 overlapping sets of 3) to unequal (anthers of the sets not overlapping in Z. longifolia) ; filaments inserted just above perianth tube, erect, diverging except when shorter than tube, long-filiform to short-subulate, those inserted on distal tepals usually 1+ mm longer than those inserted on proximal ones; anthers submedially dorsifixed, usually parallel with floral axis, linear-oblong; ovary inferior; style filiform; stigma capitate or 3-fid with lobes linear; pedicel sometimes absent, hollow. Fruits capsular, thin-walled, 3-locular, subglobose or ± oblate. Seeds numerous, black, flat, D- or wedge-shaped, lustrous. x = 6.[16] [more]
Zetocapnia
More info about the Genus Zetocapnia may be found here.
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