WorldFloraDB - Proiphys

Characteristics

Perennial herbs with subglobose, tunicated bulbs. Leaves expanding after flowering, radical, long-petiolate; lamina with prominent mid-vein; primary veins looped; secondary cross veins parallel; petiole channelled above. Inflorescence umbellate, scapose; involucral bracts 2–4, ovate. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, pedicellate, white. Perianth funnel-shaped; lobes 6, elliptic to obovate, apiculate, spreading, connate at base. Stamens 6, inserted at throat of perianth tube; lower parts of filaments expanded with 2 apical lobes, more or less united into a corona; anthers versatile, dehiscing longitudinally, introrse. Ovary inferior, globose, 1-or 3-locular; placentation parietal; ovules 2 per locule; stigma small. Fruit subglobose, 1–3-'seeded', rupturing irregularly as 'seeds' enlarge. 'Seeds' large, globose, smooth, green.

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Bulbous herbs. Leaves radical, petioled, subcircular to elliptic, with numerous parallel nerves. Inflorescences umbellate, many-flowered; spathes 2-4. Flowers pedicellate, white. Tepals united into a narrow tube; segments subequal, erect to patent, elliptic to ob-ovate, apiculate. Stamens inserted in the throat, basally connected by a membrane (false corona) which is deeply bilobed between the filaments and shorter than the perigone; anthers medifixed. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell; style filiform; stigma entire, small. Fruits dry or slightly fleshy, rupturing irregularly. Seeds globose, green.

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Cultivated as ornamentals.

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1602-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000031214
COL ID	8W2PW
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INPN ID	446825
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Proiphys

Lower taxons

Proiphys amboinensis Proiphys cunninghamii Proiphys kimberleyensis Proiphys alba Proiphys infundibularis

WorldFloraDB 2024

Proiphys Herb.

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae