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Crinum angolense

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Description

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Family Amaryllidaceae

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. Perianth 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]

Genus 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.

Species ca. 100: tropical and warm regions worldwide, mostly in Africa.[2]

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Benth. ex Baker Publication : Handb. Amaryll. (1888) 80. 1888 [Apr 1888]

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Crinum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. amabile (Giant Spider Lily) · C. americanum (American Crinum) · C. amoenum (Crinum Lily) · C. angustifolium (Crinum) · C. asiaticum (Giant Crinum Lily) · C. asiaticum var. procerum (Giant Crinum Lily) · C. asiaticum var. traubii (Asiatic Poisonbulb) · C. asiaticum 'Variegatum' (Poison Bulb) · C. augustum (Giant Spider Lily) · C. bulbispermum (Deep Sea Lily) · C. erubescens (Swamp Lily) · C. fimbriatulum (Confederate Lily) · C. jagus (Crinum Lily) · C. jagus 'Rattrayii' (Crinum Lily) · C. macowanii (Crinum) · C. pedunculatum (River Lily) · C. powellii (Crinum) · C. procerum (Crinum) · C. procerum 'Splendens' (Crinum) · C. scabrum (Crinum Lily) · C. strictum var. strictum (Texas Swamplily) · C. thaianum (Onion Plant) · C. variabile (River Lily) · C. viviparum (River Crinum Lily) · C. x powellii (Crinum) · C. x powellii'Alba' (Crinum) · C. x 'Ellen Bosanquet' (Crinum) · C. zeylanicum (Ceylon Swamplily) · C. 'Apostle' (Crinum) · C. 'Bradley' (Crinum Lily) · C. 'Carolina Beauty' (Crinum Lily) · C. 'Cecil Houdyshel' (Crinum Lily) · C. 'Hanibal's Dwarf' (Dwarf Crinum Lily) · C. 'J.c. Harvey' (Crinum) · C. 'Maiden's Blush' (Crinum Lily) · C. 'Sangria' (Sangria Crinum Lily) · C. 'Walter Flory' (Crinum)

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Further Reading

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Footnotes

  1. Zhanhe Ji & Alan W. Meerow "Amaryllidaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 264. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Walter C. Holmes "Crinum". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 55, 278, 279. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/22/2012