Aletris fragrans

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Genus Aletris

Herbs, perennial , scapose , rhizomatous . Leaves in dense basal rosettes, clasping erect branches; blade narrowly linear to lanceolate, oblanceolate , linear-elliptic, or elliptic , flat, leathery, distal margins fused to form subulate tips . Scape 2-10 dm. Inflorescences racemose. Flowers each subtended by 2 subulate, unequal bracts, short-pedicellate; perianth white, yellow, or golden orange, cylindrical, campanulate , or obovoid , abaxial surfaces rough; tepals 6, connate basally; stamens 6, included ; filaments adnate to perianth; anthers oblong-lanceolate, longer than filaments; ovary half inferior with proximal portions of perianth adnate at maturity; style 3-branched at apex. Fruits capsular , 3-locular, beaked . Seeds amber, deeply sulcate , ellipsoid to ovoid , 0.5-0.8 mm, lustrous .

Species ca. 25: North America, West Indies (Bahamas), eastern Asia.

Some species of Aletris (e.g. , A. lutea and A. obovata) are quickly eliminated unless habitats are occasionally burned or otherwise kept clear of undergrowth.[1]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Dracaena fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl. • Pleomele Fragrans

Notes

Publishing author : L. Publication : Sp. Pl., ed. 2. 1: 456 1762 [Sep 1762]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aletris

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. aurea (Golden Colic-Root) · A. bracteata (Bracted Colicroot) · A. farinosa (Ague Root) · A. lutea (Yellow Colic-Root) · A. obovata (Southern Colicroot) · A. tottenii (Totten's Colicroot) · A. × tottenii (Totten's Colicroot)

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Further Reading

• An introduction to physiological and systematical botany. London, Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, 1807. url p. 379.
• Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg. Leiden [etc.]: E. J. Brill [etc.] url p. 202.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1914 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 274.
• Comparative anatomy of the vegetative organs of the phanerogams and ferns / by A. de Bary; translated and annotated by F.O. Bower and D.H. Scott; with 241 woodcuts and an index. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1884. url p. 618, p. 621, p. 622, p. 626.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52 2005 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 130.
• Curtis's botanical magazine. 1 - 107 1883 London; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.] url p. 135.
• Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United by L. H. Bailey. .. assisted by William Miller. .. and many expert cultivators and botanists. London: The Macmillan company, 1909. url p. 503.
• Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 152, p. 3.
• Flora barbadensis: a catalogue of plants, indigenous, naturalized, and cultivated, in Barbados: to which is prefixed, a geological description of the island /by James Dottin Maycock. 1830 London: J. Ridgeway, 1830. url p. 143.
• Flora of tropical Africa. By Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. London, L. Reeve, 1868-1902. url p. 440.
• Humboldt; Monatsschrift für die gesamten Naturwissenschaften. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1882-90. url p. 192.
• Introduction to physiological and systematical botany. London, Longman, 1819. url p. 289.
• Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. Oxford [etc.]Royal Microscopical Society. url p. 112.
• Principles of scientific botany, or, Botany as an inductive science by Dr. J.M. Schleiden. .. translated by Edwin Lankester. .. London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 url p. 248.
• Reports and papers on botany. London: Printed for the Ray society, 1846-49. url p. 10, p. 54, p. 57, p. 58.
• Text-book of botany, morphological and physiological. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1882. url p. 128.
• Text-book of botany: morphological and physiological / by Julius Sachs; edited with an appendix, by Sydney H. Vines Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883. url p. 128.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url , p. 208.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 82.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 277, p. 466.
• The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette. 1848 London: published for the proprietors, 1844-1873. url p. 404.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 168, p. 244, p. 270, p. 441.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 14 1875 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 529.
• The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs. Boston: Hovey and Co., 1837- url p. 402.
• The garden... London, 1872- url p. 546.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 1070, p. 3611.
• Sullivan, V. I. 1973. Biosystematics of Aletris lutea Small, Aletris obovata Nash and natural hybrids. Brittonia 25: 294-303.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5821410
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15608919
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:429537-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 429537-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 716364

Footnotes

1. Victoria I. Sullivan "Aletris". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 51, 55, 56, 57, 64, 65, 67. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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