familyLiliaceae
genusHesperocallis
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Hesperocallis
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 390. 1867
Common names: Desert-lily
Etymology: Greek hesperos, western, and kallos, beauty
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.
Discussion
Species 1.
References
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Facts about "Hesperocallis"
Author | Frederick H. Utech + |
Authority | A. Gray + |
Common name | Desert-lily + |
Distribution | sw North America. + |
Etymology | Greek hesperos, western, and kallos, beauty + |
Illustrator | Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey + |
Publication title | Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts + |
Publication year | 1867 + |
Reference | cave1948a +, kubitzki1998c + and neal1993a + |
Source xml | https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse grained fna xml/V26/V26 387.xml + |
Taxon family | Liliaceae + |
Taxon name | Hesperocallis + |
Taxon parent | Liliaceae + |
Taxon rank | genus + |
Volume | Volume 26 + |