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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Schoenolirion
|accepted_authority=Torrey ex Durand
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser.
|place=2, 3: 103. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|common_names=Rush-lily
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Amblystima
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1837
}} {{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Oxytria
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1837
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Schoenolirion
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Schoenolirion]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek schoenos, rush, and lirion, white lily
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 20, 21, 58, 204, 303, 314
|treatment_page=page 312
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, scapose, glabrous, from rootstocks;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="rootstock orientation;rootstock some measurement;rootstock texture;rootstock architecture">rootstock vertical, 1–12 cm, fleshy, sometimes bulbose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="principal root architecture;principal root orientation">principal roots contractile, arising from tops of rootstocks.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="bulb shape;bulb shape;scale shape"><b>Bulbs,</b> when present, ovoid or elongate, scales lunate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="leaf quantity"><b>Leaves </b>2–7, basal;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape">blade flat to nearly terete, sometimes keeled.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence arrangement;inflorescence architecture;inflorescence architecture;flower arrangement;internode length"><b>Inflorescences </b>racemose or 1–3 (–6) -branched, bracteate, flowers initially crowded, internodes elongating after anthesis.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="flower duration;flower condition"><b>Flowers </b>soon deciduous if unfertilized;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="tepal duration;tepal life cycle;tepal fusion;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal architecture;tepal variability;tepal some measurement">tepals persistent, withering separately to base, distinct, yellow or white, each 3–7-veined, equal, 2–6 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 6;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="filament variability;filament height or length or size;filament some measurement;inner filament quantity;inner filament function">filaments equal, shorter than tepals, 1–2 mm, inner 3 nectariferous at base;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="anther dehiscence">anthers introrse;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="ovary position;ovary shape;ovary shape;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form;ovary placentation;ovule quantity">ovary superior, globose, 3-lobed, 3-locular, placentation axile, ovules 2 per locule;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="style quantity">style 1;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="stigma shape;stigma shape">stigma unlobed or slightly 3-lobed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="pedicel quantity">pedicel 6–15 (–30 mm).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit dehiscence;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit shape"><b>Fruits </b>capsular, dehiscent, flattened or indented at top, prominently 3-lobed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="side quantity"><b>Seeds </b>glossy black, globose, flattened on 1 side, smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="seed reflectance;seed coloration;seed shape;seed shape;seed architecture or pubescence or relief;x chromosome quantity">x = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States;including e Tex
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Excluded species:</p><!--
--><p>Schoenolirion texanum (scheele).a. gray and oxytria texana (scheele).pollard are names based upon ornithogalum texanum scheele, which is the same as camassia scilloides (rafinesque).cory, and does not belong to schoenolirion</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves without fleshy bases, arising from tops of vertical rootstocks, withering to persistent fibers; inflorescences 1–3(–6)-branched; tepals white or greenish white.
|[[Schoenolirion albiflorum|Schoenolirion albiflorum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves with fleshy bases, arising from bulbs at tops of vertical rootstocks, not withering to persistent fibers; inflorescences seldom branched; tepals white or yellow.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Tepals yellow.
|[[Schoenolirion croceum|Schoenolirion croceum]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Tepals white.
|[[Schoenolirion wrightii|Schoenolirion wrightii]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Schoenolirion
|author=H. L. Sherman
|authority=Torrey ex Durand
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Amblystima;Oxytria
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=se United States;including e Tex
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
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|genus=Schoenolirion
|anther dehiscence=introrse
|blade shape=keeled;flat;nearly terete
|bulb shape=elongate;ovoid
|filament height or length or size=shorter
|filament some measurement=1mm;2mm
|filament variability=equal
|flower arrangement=crowded
|flower condition=unfertilized
|flower duration=deciduous
|fruit architecture=capsular
|fruit dehiscence=dehiscent
|fruit shape=3-lobed;indented;flattened
|inflorescence architecture=bracteate;1-3(-6)-branched
|inflorescence arrangement=racemose
|inner filament function=nectariferous
|inner filament quantity=3
|internode length=elongating
|leaf quantity=2;7
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=3-locular
|ovary placentation=axile
|ovary position=superior
|ovary shape=3-lobed;globose
|ovule quantity=2
|pedicel quantity=6;15
|principal root architecture=contractile
|principal root orientation=arising
|rootstock architecture=bulbose
|rootstock orientation=vertical
|rootstock some measurement=1cm;12cm
|rootstock texture=fleshy
|scale shape=lunate
|seed architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|seed coloration=black
|seed reflectance=glossy
|seed shape=flattened;globose
|side quantity=1
|stamen quantity=6
|stigma shape=3-lobed;unlobed
|style quantity=1
|tepal architecture=3-7-veined
|tepal coloration=white;yellow
|tepal duration=persistent
|tepal fusion=distinct
|tepal life cycle=withering
|tepal some measurement=2mm;6mm
|tepal variability=equal
|whole_organism architecture=scapose
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|whole_organism pubescence=glabrous
|x chromosome quantity=12
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