Overview
Herbs perennial, cormous. Corms covered with a tunic. Leaves basal, linear. Flowering stem with a few leaves at base. Inflorescences terminal, umbellate, racemose, or sometimes paniculate, 2- to several flowered, often with 1--3 additional flowers in basal leaf axil of flowering stem. Flowers pedicellate. Perianth segments free, sometimes proximally with a pseudotube formed by laxly connivent segments, or connate proximally into a true tube. Stamens in 2 whorls, inserted at base of perianth; filament linear to subfiliform; anther basifixed or dorsifixed, erect. Ovary subclavate, with many ovules. Style filiform; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule, oblong-clavate, 3-valved. Seeds black, ovoid-oblong, small.
About three species: C and SW Asia, NE Africa (Egypt) ; two species (one endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
The Genus Ixiolirion is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Ixiolirion: I. ferganicum · I. ixiolirioides · I. karateginum · I. kolpakowskianum · I. ledebouri · I. macranthum · I. montanum · I. pallasii · I. sintenisii · I. songaricum · I. tataricum (Lavender Mountain Lily) · I. tataricum ledebourii · I. tataricum Ledebourii Group · I. tataricum montanum · I. tataricum var. album · I. tataricum var. ixiolirioides
Footnotes
- "Ixiolirion". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 269. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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