Hymenocallis caribaea

Caribbean spider-lily
Hymenocallis caribaea [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Hymenocallis
Species: H. caribaea
Binomial name
Hymenocallis caribaea
(L.) Herb.
Synonyms[2]
  • Pancratium caribaeum L.
  • Nemepiodon caribeum (L.) Raf.
  • Pancratium angustum Ker Gawl.
  • Hymenocallis angusta (Ker-Gawl.) Herb.
  • Hymenocallis cinerascens M.Roem.
  • Pancratium declinatum Jacq.
  • Hymenocallis declinata (Jacq.) M. Roem.
  • Hymenocallis obtusata (Griseb.) Walp.
  • Pancratium obtusatum Griseb.
  • Pancratium patens Lindl. ex Delile
  • Hymenocallis patens (Lindl. ex Delile) Herb.
  • Hymenocallis caribaea var. patens (Delile) Herb.
  • Pancratium amoenum Salisb.
  • Pancratium excisum L.f. ex Kunth
  • Pancratium recurvum Stokes
  • Troxistemon fragrans Raf.

Hymenocallis caribaea [3] is a plant in the Amaryllidaceae with the common names "Caribbean spider-lily" or "variegated spider-lily." It is native to the islands of the Caribbean and to northern South America. It is regarded as native to from Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Cuba, the Virgin Islands, and the Windward and Leeward Islands, and the Venezuelan Antilles.[4] It is also commonly cultivated as an ornamental in many other tropical and subtropical regions and reportedly naturalized in Sri Lanka, New South Wales, Bermuda, French Guinea, Suriname, and Guyana.[5]

Hymenocallis caribaea is a bulb-forming perennial. Leaves are up to 80 cm long. Umbel contains as many as 12 white flowers. Tepals are narrowly linear, up to 10 cm long, usually drooping at flowering time.[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ 1817 illustration by Ker-Gawler, Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London 3: t. 221. 1817,
  2. ↑ The Plant List, Hymenocallis caribaea
  3. ↑ Herbert, William. Appendix 44 1821.
  4. ↑ Encyclopedia of Life
  5. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. ↑ Herbert, William. 1821, Appendix to the Botanical Register: 44 Hymenocallis caribaea
  7. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 291, Pancratium caribaeum
  8. ↑ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1838. Flora Telluriana 4: 22. Nemepiodon caribeum''
  9. ↑ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1838. Flora Telluriana 4: 22, Troxistemon fragrans
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