Hesperocallis

A. Gray

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 390. 1867.

Common names: Desert-lily
Etymology: Greek hesperos, western, and kallos, beauty
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 221. Mentioned on page 51, 57.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA26 Plate 030.jpegHemerocallis fulva
Dianella ensifolia
Hesperocallis undulata
Hosta plantaginea
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Herbs, perennial, scapose, from deep-set, tunicate bulbs with fleshy roots. Leaves mostly basal, reduced distally; blade bluish green, keeled, linear, margins white, strongly undulate. Scape simple to rarely branched, stout. Inflorescences terminal, racemose, open, bracteate, elongate; bracts withering-persistent, conspicuous, ovate, scarious. Flowers fragrant; perianth funnelform, 4.5–6 cm; tepals 6, withering-persistent, connate below middle into tube, limb lobes spreading, white adaxially, with bluish green midstripes abaxially, 5–7-veined, obovate-oblanceolate; stamens fused to perianth-tube; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifixed, versatile, linear; ovary superior, 3-locular, sessile, oblong; style persistent, white, slender, equaling tepals; stigma capitate to slightly 3-lobed; pedicel jointed at apex. Fruits capsular, subglobose, 3-lobed, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds numerous, jet black, flat. x = 24.

Distribution

sw North America

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

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... more about "Hesperocallis"
versatile +  and dorsifixed +
cordate +  and linear +
Frederick H. Utech +
A. Gray +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
dilated +
reticulate-veined +  and parallel-veined +
bluish green +
sheathing +  and involucrate +
withering-persistent +
conspicuous +
1;several +
Desert-lily +
sw North America +
Greek hesperos, western, and kallos, beauty +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
fragrant +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
loculicidal +
3-lobed +  and subglobose +
membranaceous +  and leathery +
bracteate +  and open +
persistent +
reduced +
undulate +
many;several +
zygomorphic +  and actinomorphic +
4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
simple +  and rarely branched +
wind-distributed +
staminodial +
3 +, 4 +  and 6 +
1 +  and several +
capitate +  and slightly 3-lobed +
persistent +
3 +  and 1 +
slender +
Hesperocallis +
Liliaceae +
withering-persistent +
sepaloid +  and petaloid +
narrower +
3 +  and 2 +