Crinum 文珠蘭屬

作者

HSIEH, Chang-Fu

型態特徵

Perennial mostly scapose herbs, often with subterranean bulbs or tubers, rarely with rhizomes. Leaves linear or oblong. Inflorescence umbellate or cymose. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic or less often zygomorphic; tepals 6 in 2 series, free or connate, corona sometimes present. Stamens 6, inserted on perianth; filaments free or connate into a short tube; anthers versatile, 2-celled, dehiscing by vertical slits. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; ovules anatropous, often biseriately superposed; placenta axile or parietal. Fruit either a dehiscent or an indehiscent capsule or berry; seeds few.

屬

A family of about 100 genera and 1,200 species, widely distributed throughout the world. Two genera in Taiwan.

參考文獻

HSIEH, Chang-Fu, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 80. 2000. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)

Crinum 文珠蘭屬

作者

HSIEH, Chang-Fu

型態特徵

Herbs with subterranean tunicate bulbs. Leaves radical, linear or lanceolate. Inflorescence umbellate, peduncled; peduncles solid, with 2 apical involucrate bracts. Flowers large; perianth connate below, forming a long tube, segments linear to oblong. Stamens borne on throat of tube; filaments free; anthers linear, often curved; ovary 3-celled; style filiform, stigma capitate, small; ovules few to many. Capsules subglobose-obovoid, irregularly dehiscent; seeds large, globose or angular.

About 120 species, tropical and subtropical. One species in Taiwan.