Crinum
Crinum americanum
string-lily, swamp-lily
Florida swamp-lily, seven sisters, southern swamp crinum, string lily
3.5–6 cm diam., neck 4–6 cm.
basal, thick;
blade lorate or ensiform, not narrowed near base.
10–15 dm × 1–4 (–7) cm;
blade lorate, margins usually scabrous.
solid.
equaling leaves.
umbellate, few- to many-flowered, subtended by 2 large, lanceolate, scarious bracts.
2–7-flowered.
sessile or pedicellate;
perianth connate proximally, red to white, often striped, streaked, or overlaid with red abaxially, funnelform to salverform to semicampanulate, tube straight to curved, ca. same length as limb lobes;
stamens inserted on perianth tube throat;
filaments thin, often declinate;
ovary inferior, globose;
style slender;
stigma capitate.
sessile;
perianth white, salverform, tube 6–15 cm, limb lobes linear, narrowly elliptic, or oblanceolate, 5–15 × 1–1.5 cm.
capsular, globose or subglobose, usually prominently beaked.
2.5–4.5 × 2.5–4 cm, beak 1–8 cm.
fleshy, testa often corky.
Crinum
Crinum americanum
Species ca. 100 (4 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Flowers sessile or nearly so. | → 2 |
1. Flowers distinctly pedicellate. | → 3 |
2. Perianth white. | C. americanum |
2. Perianth purplish red, particularly abaxially. | C. zeylanicum |
3. Perianth pink to red; leaves 3–5 cm wide; umbels 8–13-flowered. | C. bulbispermum |
3. Perianth white; leaves 7.5–12 cm wide; umbels 20–100-flowered. | C. asiaticum |
1. Umbels 2–5-flowered. | var. americanum |
1. Umbels 6–7-flowered | var. traubii |
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