Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Lloydia serotina var. serotina Tulipa sylvestris Alstroemeria pulchella	Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Barbara Alongi Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Herbs, perennial, caulescent, glabrous, from short rhizomes with persistent leaf-sheaths simulating brown, papery, tunicate bulbs. Leaves 2–8, reduced and alternate distally; blade linear or lanceolate. Inflorescences terminal, racemose, 1–2 [–several] -flowered, loose, leafy-bracteate. Flowers slightly fragrant; perianth white with greenish to purplish veins, or yellow; tepals marcescent, 6, spreading, distinct, equal, transversely corrugate, with small, nectariferous gland above base; stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments slender; anthers basifixed, ellipsoid, latrorse; ovary superior, 3-locular; style persistent, distinct, 3-fid, short, lobes short. Fruit capsular, obovoid to globose, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds black, 3-angled. x = 12.

Distribution

w North America, Eurasia

Discussion

Species 10–12 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Lloydia serotina

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