'' Phycella cyrtanthoides'' Traubiinae is a

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of plants classified under the

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Hippeastreae Hippeastreae is a tribe of plants belonging to the subfamily Amaryllidoideae of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae). Species in this tribe are distributed in South America. Flowers are large and showy, zygomorphic, with the stamens in varying ...

. It belongs to the subfamily

Amaryllidoideae Amaryllidoideae (Amaryllidaceae ''s.s.'', amaryllids) is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. The most recent APG classification, APG III, takes a broad view of the Amaryllidaceae, which then ...

of the Amaryllis

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(

Amaryllidaceae The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus '' Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryl ...

Description

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herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition ...

plants, terrestrial in habitat. Leaves linear or

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, annual, sometimes

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Taxonomy

The term was originally used by the Müller-Doblies' in 1996 as a

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subtribe of Hippeastreae, to include ''Traubia'', based on

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's original use of Traubeae for the same purpose. Created from a redistribution of genera of Hippeastreae following a

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study it is composed of the following genera, based on the presence of lorate-leaves rather than petiolate, which form the remaining genera of the tribe Hippeastreae, ''i.e.''

Hippeastrinae Hippeastrinae is a subtribe of plants classified under the tribe Hippeastreae. It belongs to the subfamily Amaryllidoideae of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae). Description Terrestrial bulbous perennial herbaceous plants, although th ...

. In this redistribution the four species of ''

Famatina Famatina is a town in the province of La Rioja, Argentina. It has 6,371 inhabitants as per the , and is the only municipality in the Famatina Department. Located in fertile valley between Sierra de Famatina and Sierra de Velasco Famatina's econo ...

'' were polyphyletic and ''F. maulensis''

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with ''Phycella'' and was consequently transferred: The generic distribution here is based on Garcia et al 2019. * 'Placea'' previous genus* '' Phycella'' (~13 species) * ''

Rhodolirium ''Rhodolirium'' is a small South American genus in the tribe Hippeastreae of the family Amaryllidaceae. Although originally described by Philippi in 1858 it has long remained buried in other taxa, principally ''Hippeastrum'' and more recently ' ...

'' (2 species) * ''

Traubia ''Traubia'' is a genus of Chilean plants in the Amaryllis family. Only one species is recognized, ''Traubia modesta'',Moldenke, Harold Norman. 1963. Plant Life 19: 55. as ''Traubia chilensis'' native to northern and central Chile.Marticorena, C. ...

'' (monotypic for ''T. modesta'') * '' Paposoa'' (monotypic for ''P. laetum'') The tribe Hippeastreae underwent a major recircumscription in 2019 and 2020. As a result a new genus, '' Eremolirion'' Nic.García (for ''Rhodolirium laetum'' and

as ''Eremolirion laetum''), leaving a more restricted ''Rhodolirium'' ''

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''. In addition, ''Placea'' was absorbed into ''Phycella''. The genus name ''Eremolirion'' was subsequently changed to '' Paposoa'' to avoid confusion with '' Eremiolirion''.

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