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Hippeastrum

Herb. (1821)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Monocots Order: Asparagales Family: Amaryllidaceae Genus: Hippeastrum

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial herbs from bulbs.

Stems:

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, developing after flowers. Blades linear to lanceolate. Base sessile. Margins entire. Veins parallel. Sheathing. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers 1–10 in terminal umbels on hollow, leafless scapes, each one subtended by a spathe. Flowers bisexual (perfect), slightly zygomorphic, nodding. Perianth of 6 tepals in 2 whorls of 3, outer slightly shorter than inner, perianth connate into a short or long tube, with a corona of small scales between the filaments. Stamens 6, inserted just below top of perianth tube, unequal, of 4 different lengths. Ovary inferior; stigma 3-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit a globose or ellipsoid; loculicidal capsules. Seeds few to numerous; black; disk–shaped and winged or subglobose and ± angular.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Appendix: 31 (1821)

Occurrences

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