Hymenocallis speciosa
| Green-tinge spiderlily | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
| Genus: | Hymenocallis |
| Species: | H. speciosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Hymenocallis speciosa | |
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Hymenocallis speciosa, the green-tinge spiderlily, is a species of the genus Hymenocallis that is native to the Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean. It is cultivated as an ornamental in some areas, and reportedly naturalized in Cuba and the Bahamas.[2][3]
Hymenocallis speciosa is a bulb-forming perennial. Stipe can attain a height of up to 50 cm. Leaves are lanceolate, up to 50 cm long and 10 cm across, narrowing to a petiole below. One umbel can produce as many as 20 flowers. Flowers are white with a slight greenish tinge, the tepals reflexed (curling backwards) at flowering time.[4][5][6][7]
References[edit]
- ^ The Plant List Hymenocallis speciosa
- ^ "Hymenocallis speciosa". Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hymenocallis speciosa
- ^ Hortipedia, Hymenocallis speciosa
- ^ Salisbury, Richard Anthony. 1812. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 1: 340, Hymenocallis speciosa
- ^ Salisbury, Richard Anthony. 1794. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2: 73, t. 12. Pancratium speciosum
- ^ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1838. Flora Telluriana 4: 22, Nemepiodon speciosum
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