Hymenocallis tubiflora is a plant species from Trinidad and northern South America. It is reported from Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and northern Brazil.[3] The name was originally coined in 1812,[4] the description based on a specimen grown at Kew Botanical Garden in London, the bulb having been seized by British sailors from a French ship captured by the Royal Navy in 1803.[5]
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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. tubiflora
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Hymenocallis tubiflora is a bulb-forming perennial. It has broadly lanceolate leaves up to 60 cm long, tapering at the tip and narrowing below to a long petiole. Flowers are white, borne in an umbel; tepals long and narrow, frequently drooping at flowering time; staminal cup short. Anthers yellow, borne on long filaments.[4][6]
Gardening edit
The species is widely cultivated in tropical countries because of its attractive, fragrant floral display. It is reported naturalized in Malaysia.[7] It can also be grown in temperate countries with proper care and protection from cold weather.[8][9]
References edit
- ^ 1818 illustration from Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London 4: t. 265. As Pancratium guianense
- ^ The Plant List
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b Salisbury, Richard Anthony. 1812. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 1: 341.
- ^ Tropicos, Hymenocallis tubiflora
- ^ Ker Gawler, John Bellenden. 1818. Botanical Register t. 265, Pancratium guianense
- ^ Amaryllis garden, about Amaryllis and about gardening in Malaysia, Hymenocallis tubiflora
- ^ "Rare Plants United Kingdom, Hymenocallis tubiflora". Archived from the original on 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
- ^ Garden Drum, beating a new path, Hymenocallis tubiflora