Flora of North America species comparison

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Hippeastrum

Barbados-lily, hippeastrum, naked lady, red spider-lily
Habit 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.

Hippeastrum
Distribution
from USDA
South America; c America; West Indies; w Africa
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species ca. 75 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 282. Author: Walter C. Holmes.
Parent taxa Liliaceae
Subordinate taxa
H. puniceum
Name authority Herbert: Appendix, 31. (1821)
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