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Taxonomy

Physical 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 x:

When placed before a specific epithet, indicates the taxon is of known hybrid origin. The basic number of chromosomes in a polyploid series.

Similar Species

Members of the genus x:

There are approximately 328 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: x. Ackersteinia dodsonii · x. Aeonichryson aizoides · x. Aeoniogreenovia lambii · x. Aglaonaria robertsii · x. Agroelymus adamsii · x. Agroelymus bergrothii · x. Agroelymus bowdenii · x. Agroelymus cayouetteorum · x. Agroelymus colvillensis · x. Agroelymus dorei · x. Agroelymus hirtiflorus · x. Agroelymus hodgsonii · x. Agroelymus hultenii · x. Agroelymus jamesensis · x. Agroelymus mossii · x. Agroelymus ontariensis · x. Agroelymus palmerensis · x. Agroelymus pamiricus · x. Agroelymus piettei · x. Agroelymus strictus · x. Agroelymus turneri · x. Agroelymus ungavensis · x. Alcalthaea suffrutescens · x. aleuticus (Aleutian Wildrye) · x. Alismodorus muretii · x. Amarcrinum memoria-corsii (Amarcrinum) · x. Amarine tubergenii · x. Amarygia bidwellii · x. Amarygia parkeri · x. Anacamptorchis duquesnei · x. Anacamptorchis durandii · x. Anacamptorchis fallax. · x. Anacamptorchis guetroti · x. Anacamptorchis kelleri · x. Anacamptorchis klingei · x. Anacamptorchis la-niccae · x. Anacamptorchis laniccae · x. Anacamptorchis laniccae nothosubsp. galloprovinciana · x. Anacamptorchis larzacensis · x. Anacamptorchis lesbiensis · x. Anacamptorchis simorrensis · x. Anacamptorchis simorrensis nothovar. ticinensis · x. Anacamptorchis ticinensis · x. Anacamptorchis vanlookenii · x. Anacamptorchis weberi · x. Anoectomaria dominii · x. Aporberocereus innesii · x. arcuatum (Arcuate Barley) · x. aristatus (Purple Wildrye) · x. Asplenicystopteris blindii · x. Asplenicystopteris payotii · x. Asplenoceterach badense · x. Asplenoceterach barrancense · x. Asplenoceterach newmanii · x. Asplenophyllitis claphamii · x. Asplenophyllitis confluens · x. Asplenophyllitis hendersonii · x. Asplenophyllitis jacksonii · x. Asplenophyllitis kummerlei · x. Asplenophyllitis lobata · x. Asplenophyllitis microdon · x. Asplenosorus akaishiensis · x. Asplenosorus boydstoniae · x. Asplenosorus castaneoviridis · x. Asplenosorus ebenoides · x. Asplenosorus gravesii · x. Asplenosorus herb-wagneri · x. Asplenosorus inex.pectatus · x. Asplenosorus kentuckiensis · x. Asplenosorus kitazawae · x. Asplenosorus pinnatifidus · x. Asplenosorus shawneensis · x. Asplenosorus tosaensis · x. Asplenosorus trudellii · x. Astroworthia bicarinata · x. Astroworthia bicarinata nm. skinneri · x. Astroworthia skinneri · x. Attabignya minarum · x. Bolboschoenoplectus mariqueter · x. Bonstedtia lilacina · x. Bonstedtia youngiana · x. Borkersia soniae · x. Brachystemon nolae-carriae · x. braunii (Braun's Festulolium) · x. Brunsdonna parkeri · x. Brunserine tubergenii · x. Butyagrus nabonnandii · x. caduca (Mandan Ricegrass) · x. Calicharis butcheri · x. Carapelia tarantuloides · x. carduus font-queri · x. Carruanthophyllum hybridum · x. carthamus battandieri · x. carthamus doumerguei · x. carthamus faurei · x. centaurea bourlieri · x. centaurea impura · x. centaurea serresii · x. Ceterophyllitis hybrida · x. Chamaebivia francescae

Bibliography

• 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.

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3788689

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.