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Amaryllidaceae

Amaryllidaceae
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Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program

Amaryllidaceae is a family with 73 genera and 1,605 species worldwide. In the APG III circumscription this family includes the old families of Alliaceae, Amaryllidaceae, and what is thought to be a weakly sister clade Agapanthaceae. The latter is only found in South Africa, while the other two former families, now considered subfamilies, are worldwide. There are some shared chemical characteristics but they all share a scapose inflorescence, which is an umbellate cymose construction bearing a scarious spathe. 

Herbs from a bulb with contractile roots, sometimes with sulfurous smelling compounds and reduced stems. Leaves alternate, usually 2-ranked, basal, simple, flat to terete, entire with parallel venation and sheathing at base. Determinate inflorescence, of one or more contracted helicoid cymes, appearing as a umbel, sometimes reduced to a single flowe and subtended by a few spathelike bracts. Bisexual flowers, radial to bilateral, showy with a filiform bract, 6 tepals, distinct to connate, imbricate, corona sometimes present, 6 stamens, filaments sometimes adnate to the perianth, 3 connate carpels, inferior ovary with axile placentation, nectaries in septa of ovary. Fruit a loculicidal capsule or occasionally a berry, some have seed coat with phytomelan.

Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Agapanthus africanus
Media resource of Agapanthus africanus
Agapanthus orientalis
Media resource of Agapanthus orientalis
Allium acuminatum
Media resource of Allium acuminatum
Allium atrorubens
Media resource of Allium atrorubens
Allium bigelovii
Media resource of Allium bigelovii
Allium bisceptrum
Media resource of Allium bisceptrum
Allium cepa
Media resource of Allium cepa
Allium cernuum
Media resource of Allium cernuum
Allium geyeri
Media resource of Allium geyeri
Allium glandulosum
Media resource of Allium glandulosum
Allium gooddingii
Media resource of Allium gooddingii
Allium hintoniorum
Media resource of Allium hintoniorum
Allium kunthii
Media resource of Allium kunthii
Allium macropetalum
Media resource of Allium macropetalum
Allium neapolitanum
Media resource of Allium neapolitanum
Allium neopolitanum
Media resource of Allium neopolitanum
Allium nevadense
Media resource of Allium nevadense
Allium parishii
Media resource of Allium parishii
Allium passeyi
Media resource of Allium passeyi
Allium plummerae
Media resource of Allium plummerae
Allium rhizomatum
Media resource of Allium rhizomatum
Allium sativum
Media resource of Allium sativum
Allium tuberosum
Media resource of Allium tuberosum
Amaryllis vittata
Media resource of Amaryllis vittata
Clivia miniata
Media resource of Clivia miniata
Cooperia drummondii
Media resource of Cooperia drummondii
Crinum asiaticum
Media resource of Crinum asiaticum
Crinum bulbispermum
Media resource of Crinum bulbispermum
Habranthus longifolius
Media resource of Habranthus longifolius
Hippeastrum vittatum
Media resource of Hippeastrum vittatum
Hymenocallis americana
Media resource of Hymenocallis americana
Hymenocallis littoralis
Media resource of Hymenocallis littoralis
Hymenocallis sonorensis
Media resource of Hymenocallis sonorensis
Ipheion uniflorum
Media resource of Ipheion uniflorum
Leucojum aestivum
Media resource of Leucojum aestivum
Lycoris radiata
Media resource of Lycoris radiata
Lycoris squamigera
Media resource of Lycoris squamigera
Narcissus biflorus
Media resource of Narcissus biflorus
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Media resource of Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Nothoscordum bivalve
Media resource of Nothoscordum bivalve
Sternbergia lutea
Media resource of Sternbergia lutea
Tulbaghia violacea
Media resource of Tulbaghia violacea
Zephyranthes candida
Media resource of Zephyranthes candida
Zephyranthes chlorosolen
Media resource of Zephyranthes chlorosolen
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