Bulb
20-30 mm in diameter, globose, with a narrow neck
Leaves
linear or strap-shaped, glabrous or finely pubescent, often twisted, present during or after flowering
Inflorescence
1-5-flowered; scape solid, relatively short, finely pubescent or glabrous; spathe valves 2, free or variously fused
Flowers
regular, white, fugacious; pedicels short
Tepals
connate into a long slender tube, cylindric below and funnel-shaped towards mouth; segments equal, spreading
Stamens
arising in perigone throat; filaments united into a large conspicuous cup for more than a third of their length, free and incurving distally; anthers linear, dorsifixed, versatile
Ovary
subglobose; ovules many per locule; style long, filiform; stigma capitate to obscurely 3-lobed
Capsule
loculicidal, spherical to cylindric
Seeds
glossy, black, sometimes with a white elaiosome, globose or angled by compression
x = 11
Nomenclature:
Pancratium
L.
Linnaeus: 290 (1753)
Sölch & Roessler: 12 (1969)
Bjørnstad: 281 (1973)
Nordal: 26 (1982)
Chapmanolirion
Dinter
Dinter: 49 (1909)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species ± 20; in the Mediterranean region, southern Asia, the Canary Islands and Africa
Southern Africa
: Species 1:
Pancratium tenuifolium
Hochst. ex A.Rich., is represented in Namibia, Botswana and the Northern Province of South Africa
References:
BJØRNSTAD, I. 1973. A revision of the genus
Pancratium
L. (
Amaryllidaceae
) in Africa south of the Sahara.
Norwegian Journal of Botany
29
DINTER, K. 1909.
Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika
. Theodor Oswald Weigel, Leipzig
LINNAEUS, C. 1753.
Species plantarum
. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
NORDAL, I. 1982.
Flora of tropical East Africa
.
Amaryllidaceae
SÖLCH, A. & ROESSLER, H. 1969.
Amaryllidaceae
.
Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika
150
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