Flora of North America species comparison

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Leucocrinum

sand-lily, star-lily
Habit Herbs, perennial, acaulescent, glabrous, from short, deeply buried, fleshy roots.
Leaves

few, tufted, each tuft surrounded basally by membranous sheaths;

blade linear.
Inflorescences

umbellike, central clusters at ground level.
Flowers

rather showy, fragrant;

tepals 6, connate below middle, white, narrowly oblong, equal;

perianth tube long, slender;

limb lobes spreading;

stamens 6, inserted near apex of perianth tube;

filaments filiform, shorter than perianth lobes;

anthers subversatile, often strongly curved or coiled after dehiscence, dehiscence introrse;

ovary subterranean, 3-locular, ovoid, septal nectaries present;

style filiform, elongate, 3-fid, lobes short;

pedicel articulate, arising directly from rootstock, ebracteate.
Fruits

capsular, subterranean, obovoid, 3-angled, dehiscence loculicidal.
Seeds

black, angled.
x

= 11, 13, 14.

Leucocrinum
Distribution
from USDA
w United States
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

Molecular evidence (A. W. Meerow et al. 1999; M. F. Fay et al. 2000) indicates that Leucocrinum is most closely related to Echeandia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 217. Authors: James L. Reveal, Frederick H. Utech.
Parent taxa Liliaceae
Subordinate taxa
L. montanum
Name authority Nuttall ex A. Gray: Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 4: 108, 110. (1837)
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