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Amaryllidaceae

Amaryllidaceae
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Max Licher
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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.

<< 151 - 200 taxa >>
Allium gypsaceum
Media resource of Allium gypsaceum
Allium haemanthoides
Media resource of Allium haemanthoides
Allium haematochiton
Media resource of Allium haematochiton
Allium henryi
Media
not available
Allium hickmanii
Media resource of Allium hickmanii
Allium hickmanni
Media resource of Allium hickmanni
Allium hintoniorum
Media resource of Allium hintoniorum
Allium hirtovaginatum
Media
not available
Allium hoffmanii
Media resource of Allium hoffmanii
Allium hollandicum
Media resource of Allium hollandicum
Allium howellii
Media resource of Allium howellii
Allium humile
Media
not available
Allium hyacinthoides
Media resource of Allium hyacinthoides
Allium hyalinum
Media resource of Allium hyalinum
Allium hymenorhizum
Media resource of Allium hymenorhizum
Allium incisum
Media resource of Allium incisum
Allium incomptum
Media
not available
Allium inconspicuum
Media resource of Allium inconspicuum
Allium insubricum
Media resource of Allium insubricum
Allium intactum
Media
not available
Allium inutile
Media
not available
Allium iranicum
Media resource of Allium iranicum
Allium japonicum
Media resource of Allium japonicum
Allium jepsonii
Media resource of Allium jepsonii
Allium jesdianum
Media resource of Allium jesdianum
Allium jodanthum
Media
not available
Allium johnstonii
Media
not available
Allium jubatum
Media
not available
Allium karataviense
Media resource of Allium karataviense
Allium kaschianum
Media resource of Allium kaschianum
Allium keeverae
Media resource of Allium keeverae
Allium kermesinum
Media resource of Allium kermesinum
Allium kessleri
Media resource of Allium kessleri
Allium kharputense
Media resource of Allium kharputense
Allium kokanicum
Media
not available
Allium korolkowii
Media resource of Allium korolkowii
Allium kunthianum
Media resource of Allium kunthianum
Allium kunthii
Media resource of Allium kunthii
Allium kurrat
Media
not available
Allium lacunosum
Media resource of Allium lacunosum
Allium lavandulare
Media resource of Allium lavandulare
Allium ledebourianum
Media resource of Allium ledebourianum
Allium lehmannii
Media
not available
Allium lemmonii
Media resource of Allium lemmonii
Allium lilacinum
Media resource of Allium lilacinum
Allium lineare
Media resource of Allium lineare
Allium litardierei
Media
not available
Allium longanum
Media
not available
Allium longifolium
Media resource of Allium longifolium
Allium longisepalum
Media resource of Allium longisepalum
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