Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Guernsey Lily
Description
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]
Physical Description
Habit: Evergreen .
Flowers: Bloom Period: April, May, June. • Flower Color: near white, pale pink, pink, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 12-18" tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 12-15" apart.
Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subclass:
Liliidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lilianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Asparagales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Amaryllidaceae
()
- Jaume Saint-Hilaire, 1805, nom. cons.
- Amaryllis Family
- Tribe:
Amaryllideae
()
- Genus:
Nerine
()
- Herbert, 1820, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
filifolia
- Baker
- Botanical name: - Nerine filifolia Baker
- Specific epithet:
filifolia
- Baker
- Genus:
Nerine
(
- Tribe:
Amaryllideae
(
- Family:
Amaryllidaceae
(
- Order:
Asparagales
(
- Superorder:
Lilianae
(
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 09-Jul-2004
Similar Species
Members of the genus Nerine
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
N. bowdenii (Guernsey Lily) · N. filifolia (Guernsey Lily) · N. flexuosa 'Alba' (White Nerine) · N. krigei (Nerine) · N. masoniorum (Masons Nerine Nerine Masoniorum) · N. sarniensis (Berglelie) · N. sarniensis var. corusca 'Major' (Berglelie) · N. sarniensis 'Baghdad' (Berglelie) · N. sarniensis 'Rose Emperor' (Berglelie) · N. undulata (Nerine)
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of miscellaneous information. Additional Series. Royal Gardens, Kew. 4 1900 [Kew, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens], 1898-1936; url p. 275.
- Hand-list of tender momocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. London, Printed for H. M. S. O., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897. url p. 153.
- Hand-list of tender monocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 1897. LondonPrinted for H.M. Stationery Off. by Eyre and Spottiswoode1897 url p. 153.
- Journal of botany, British and foreign. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 153.
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 419.
- The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 306, p. 318, p. 438.
- The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url , , , p. 110, p. 626, p. 75, p. 779.
- The bulb book; or, Bulbous and tuberous plants for the open air, stove, and greenhouse, containing particulars as to descriptions, culture, propagation, etc., of plants from all parts of the world having bulbs, cor by John Weathers...Illustrated by the author. London: J. Murray, 1911. url p. 380.
- The illustrated dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists. Ed. by George Nicholson. Assisted by Professor J. W. H. Trail and J. Garrett. London: L. U. Gill, [1884]-89. url p. 447.
- Qian Xiao-hu, Chen Sing-chi, Hsu Yin, Hu Zhi-bi, Huang Xiu-lan & Fan Quan-jin. 1985. Amaryllidaceae. In: Pei Chien & Ting Chih-tsun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 16(1): 1--42.
Notes
Contributors
- Behnke Nurseries, Potomac MD USA
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5845801
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-282087
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:66304-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 66304-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 756485
Footnotes
- 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]
