Leucocrinum Nutt. ex A.Gray

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asparagaceae

Characteristics

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.
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Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Images

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Distribution

Leucocrinum world distribution map, present in Colombia and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:24434-1
WFO ID wfo-4000021526
COL ID 8VYW3
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Synonyms

Leucrinis Leucocrinum

Lower taxons

Leucocrinum montanum