Amaryllidaceae |
| 85 genera, 1 with aquatics. Perennial herbs with
tunicated bulbous rootstocks. Leaves basal linear, flat
or terete. Inflorescence an umbel subtended by a thick
involucre which splits into 2 spathes. Perianth showy,
pink to white, inserted above the ovary, tubular at base,
divided into 6 segments above, withourt a corona. Stamens
6, inserted at the mouth of the tube opposite the
segments; filaments free to the base; anthers versatile.
Ovary inferior, sessile or subsessile, 3-locular; ovules
few. Bulb-geophytes, leaves submerged or emergent:
entomophilous: diaspores probably seeds, perhaps also
bulbils: cultivated in aquaria for decorativ purposes. |
