Crininae

Crininae
Crinum moorei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Amaryllidoideae
Tribe:	Amaryllideae
Subtribe:	Crininae Baker[1][2]
Type genus
Crinum L.
Genera
see text
Synonyms
Crineae

Crininae is one of four subtribes within the tribe Amaryllideae (subfamily Amaryllidoideae, family Amaryllidaceae), with a pantropical distribution (Crinum) and also sub-Saharan Africa.^[3][4]

Description

Leaves frequently show an intercalary meristem and are usually fringed with cartilaginous teeth. The leaf apices are also often truncate (cut off). The flowers may be actinomorphic to zygomorphic, with a perigone tube with free stamens. The fruit is indehiscent, irregular, and often rostellate (rosetted). The scape does not abscise (shed) during seed dispersal, with the exception of Cybistetes where it detaches at ground level. The seeds also lack an integument, but are endosperm-rich and partially chlorophyllous with cork-covering.

Taxonomy

Phylogeny

Crininae are placed within Amaryllideae as follow:

These are phylogenetically related as follows:

Tribe Amaryllideae	Subtribe Amaryllidinae Subtribe Boophoninae Subtribe Strumariinae Subtribe Crininae

Subdivision

As circumscribed by Meerow et al. (2001), there were three genera (Species), although the precise relationship between Cybistetes and Amocharis has been problematic, having been segregated in 1939^[5] but later restored in 2007,^[6] submerging Cybistetes within Ammocharis as A. longifolia:^[7]

Genera (species):

• Crinum (65)
• Ammocharis (5)
• [Cybistetes (1)]

Distribution

Widespread in the tropics (pantropical) and sub-Saharan Africa.

References

1. J. Bot. 16: 164. ante 11 Jun 1878; Pax in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.2, 5. 108. 1887
2. Müller-Doblies & Müller-Doblies 1996.
3. Meerow & Snijman 2001.
4. Vigneron 2008.
5. Milne-Redhead & Schweickerdt 1939.
6. Kwembeya et al 2007.
7. Snijman & Kolberg 2011.

Bibliography

• Milne-Redhead, E.; Schweickerdt, H. G. (October 1939). "A new conception of the genus Ammocharis Herb.". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany 52 (342): 159–197. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1939.tb01601.x.
• Meerow, Alan W.; Lehmiller, David J.; Clayton, Jason R. (March 2003). "Phylogeny and biogeography of Crinum L. (Amaryllidaceae) inferred from nuclear and limited plastid non-coding DNA sequences". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (3): 349–363. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.00142.x.
• Kwembeya, Ezekeil G.; Bjorå, Charlotte S.; Stedje, Brita; Nordal, Inger (1 August 2007). "Phylogenetic Relationships in the Genus Crinum (Amaryllidaceae) with Emphasis on Tropical African Species: Evidence from trnL-F and Nuclear ITS DNA Sequence Data". Taxon 56 (3): 801. doi:10.2307/25065863.
• Müller-Doblies, U.; Müller-Doblies, D. (1996). "Tribes and subtribes and some species combinations in Amaryllidaceae J St Hil R Dahlgren & al. 1985". Feddes Repertorium 107 (5–6): S.c.1–S.c.9.
• Meerow, Alan W.; Snijman, Deirdre A. (December 2001). "Phylogeny of Amaryllidaceae Tribe Amaryllideae Based on nrDNA ITS Sequences and Morphology". American Journal of Botany 88 (12): 2321–2330. doi:10.2307/3558392.
• Snijman, D. A.; Linder, H. P. (1996). "Phylogenetic Relationships, Seed Characters, and Dispersal System Evolution in Amaryllideae (Amaryllidaceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 83 (3): 362–386. doi:10.2307/2399866.
• Vigneron, Pascal (2008). "Amaryllidaceae". Amaryllidaceae.org (in French). Retrieved 23 October 2014.
• "Amaryllidaceae: A taxonomic tool for the Amaryllidaceae of the world". eMonocot.
• Katja Weiehhardt-Kulessa, Thomas Bórner, Jiirgen Sehmitz, Ute Müller-Doblies, and Dietrich Müller-Doblies. 2000. Controversial taxonomy of Strumariinae (Amaryllidaceae) investigated by nuclear rDNA (ITS) sequences. 1. Hessea, Namaquanula, Kamiesbergia, and Dewinterella. Plant Syst. Evol. 223:1-13 (2000)
• Germishuizen, G.; Meyer, N.L., eds. (2003). "Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist" (PDF). Strelitzia 14 (i-vi): 1–1231. (online version)
• Snijman, D. A.; Kolberg, H. (2011). "Ammocharis deserticola (Amaryllideae), a new species from Namibia and a key to species of the genus" (PDF). Bothalia 41 (2): 308–311.

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