Pancratium illyricum

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

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]

Genus 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.

About 15 species: Mediterranean region to tropical Africa and Asia; one species in China.[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 09-Jul-2004

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pancratium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

P. canariense (Canary Sea Daffodil) · P. liriosme (Spring Spiderlily) · P. littorale (Pancratium) · P. maritimum (Northern Marsh Orchid) · P. zeylanicum (Pancratium)

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5847152
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-285920
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:66449-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 66447-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 878581

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. "Pancratium". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 266. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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