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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
- 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
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Liliidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lilianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Asparagales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Amaryllidaceae
()
- Jaume Saint-Hilaire, 1805, nom. cons.
- Amaryllis Family
- Tribe:
Pancratieae
()
- Genus:
Pancratium
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Pancratium
- Specific epithet:
rotatum
- Ker Gawl.
- Variety:
biflorum
- Botanical name: - Pancratium rotatum var. biflorum Ker Gawl.
- Variety:
biflorum
- Specific epithet:
rotatum
- Ker Gawl.
- Genus:
Pancratium
(
- Tribe:
Pancratieae
(
- Family:
Amaryllidaceae
(
- Order:
Asparagales
(
- Superorder:
Lilianae
(
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
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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Further Reading
- 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
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.
Identifiers
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15947914
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:181385-2
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 181385-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2916833
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]
- "Pancratium". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 266. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
