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Hippeastrum
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Sophia
FNA
Resources
Walter C. Holmes in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
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.
Species within inventory project:
UF CONSERVATION AREAS
Hippeastrum pardinum
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Hippeastrum puniceum
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Hippeastrum vittatum
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This project made possible through support from the UF Planning, Design & Construction and the UF Office of Sustainability
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