Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Habranthus tubispathus Hippeastrum puniceum Hymenocallis occidentalis var. occidentalis	Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Kimberly J. Martin Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Herbs, perennial, scapose, glabrous, from globose bulbs. Leaves few, basal; blade liguliform, fleshy, parallel-veined, margins entire, apex tapering. Scape hollow. Inflorescences umbellate, bracteate; bracts 2, scarious. Flowers spreading to slightly drooping, syntepalous; perianth connate proximally, funnelform to campanulate, with minute corona reduced to small crown inserted on throat of tube; tepals 6 in 2 whorls of 3, outer slightly shorter than inner; stamens inserted on perianth-tube, declinate, subequal; filaments slender; ovary inferior, ellipsoid; style slender, ca. equaling tepals; stigma capitate or slightly 3-lobed. Fruits capsular, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds few-to-many.

Distribution

c America, West Indies, South America, w Africa

Discussion

Species ca. 75 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Hippeastrum puniceum

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