特徵描述
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
Lycoris 石蒜屬
作者
HSIEH, Chang-Fu
型態特徵
Herbs with tunicate bulbs. Leaves ligulate or linear. Scapes solid. Flowers pedicelled, umbellate; involucrate bracts 3, linear or lanceolate; perianth infundibuliform, segments narrow, nearly equal; corona segments usually minute and scale-like in throat; filaments elongate, inserted on throat of perianth tube; anthers oblong; ovary 3-celled; style filiform. Capsules ovoid or subglobose, obtuse at base, beaked at apex; seeds globose.
