Zephyrantheae Salisb. is a now obsolete

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within the American

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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 ...

(

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Amaryllidoideae Amaryllidoideae (Amaryllidaceae ''s.s.'', amaryllids) is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the Family (biology), family Amaryllidaceae, Order (biology), order Asparagales. The most recent Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG classification, A ...

), containing five genera ('' Habranthus'', '' Pyrolirion'', ''

Rhodophiala ''Rhodophiala'' was a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulb, bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae). It consisted of about 30 South American species distributed in southern Brazil, Argentina, and, spe ...

'', '' Sprekelia'', ''

Zephyranthes ''Zephyranthes'' is a genus of temperate and tropical bulbous plants in the Amaryllidaceae, Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, native to the Americas and widely cultivated as ornamentals. Following the expansion of the genus in ...

'').Michael Hickey and Clive King. Common Families of Flowering Plants. Cambridge University Press, 1997
. page 177

Description

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absent, stem leafless,

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many,

perianth The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone in monocots) is the non-reproductive part of the flower. It is a structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals) or tepal ...

tube present, flowers solitary or paired.

Taxonomy

Richard Anthony Salisbury Richard Anthony Salisbury (born Richard Anthony Markham; 2 May 1761 – 23 March 1829) was a British botanist. While he carried out valuable work in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by hi ...

in his original description in 1866, defined the Zephyrantheae as an 'Order' with two sections and a number of subgroups, such as

Omphalissa Omphalissa is an unaccepted subgenus of genus ''Hippeastrum'', within the family Amaryllidaceae. Originally described by Richard Anthony Salisbury in 1866. Description Robust habit, two to four large flowers. Perianth with a short tube( 2 ...

. The composition has varied, given the considerable rearrangements of the Amaryllidaceae that have taken place. For instance Hickey and Clive (1997) describe the Zephyrantheae as being one of ten tribes by which the Amaryllidaceae are divided, allocating ''Zephyranthes'' and ''

Sternbergia ''Sternbergia'' is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.Waldstein, Franz de Paula Adam von & Kitaibel, Pál. 1804. Descriptiones et Icones Plantarum Rariorum Hungariae 2: 172 The genus c ...

'' to this tribe, while Traub (1952) included ''Habranthus''. Other genera that have been placed in this tribe include '' Cooperia'', '' Haylockia'', ''

Apodolirion ''Apodolirion'' is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae). It consists of 6 species native to Southern Africa. Description Vegetative characteristics ''Apodolirion ...

'', and '' Gethyllis''.Markku Savela. Tree of Life: Amaryllidaceae
/ref> In his 1963 monograph on Amaryllidaceae, Traub lists six species, ''Rhodophiala'', ''Haylockia'', ''Pyrolirion'', ''Zephyranthes'', ''Habranthus'' and ''Sprekelia''. Meerow ''et al.'' (1999) provides an account (Table 1) of the subsequent rearrangement of Traub's genera, and of the modern molecular based phylogeny (see also Taxonomy of Amaryllidoideae).

References

Bibliography

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Walter Samuel Flory

Florey Papers
* Chromosome Diversity in Species, and in Hybrids, of the Tribe Zephyrantheae. The Nucleus, (1968) * Chromosome Diversity and Variation in Species, and in Hybrids, of the Tribe Zephyrantheae. Abstract, (1968.) * Chromosomes of Interspecific and Intergeneric Hybrids in Zephyrantheae. Abstract, (1968.) * High Chromosome Numbers in Several Zephyrantheae Texa. Plant Life, Vol. 36, (1980) * New Chromosomes in Hybrids in Tribe Zephyrantheae. Abstract, (1969) * The Origins of Three Recently Described Taxa in Tribe Zephyrantheae. Abstract, (1964.) * Parthenogenesis in Zephyrantheae. Herbertia, Vol. 6, (1939.) Amaryllidoideae Historically recognized angiosperm taxa {{Amaryllidaceae-stub