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.
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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 +