''Hyacinthella'' is a genus of

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ous flowering plants in the family

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, subfamily

Scilloideae Scilloideae (named after the genus ''Scilla'', "squill") is a subfamily of bulbous plants within the family ''Asparagaceae''. Scilloideae is sometimes treated as a separate family Hyacinthaceae, named after the genus ''Hyacinthus''. Scilloideae or ...

(formerly the family Hyacinthaceae).Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards),
Asparagales: Scilloideae
, ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2013-03-21 It is native to eastern and south-eastern Europe through to northern

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, reaching as far south as

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is the main country in which species are found., pp. 101–103

Description

''Hyacinthella'' species grow from bulbs whose tunics often bear powdery white crystals. There are usually two or three basal leaves with prominent strands of fibre. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

s consist of short spikes (

raceme A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...

s) of tubular flowers, each with six short lobes, in colours ranging from pale blue to deep violet. Heights vary from about to , depending on the species., pp. 654–655 They grow in rocky habitats, such as hillsides, which are hot and dry in the summer.

Species

, the

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accepted 17 species:Search for "Hyacinthella", # '' Hyacinthella acutiloba'' K.Perss. & Wendelbo - Turkey # '' Hyacinthella atropatana'' (Grossh.) Mordak & Zakhar. - Transcaucasus # '' Hyacinthella campanulata'' K.Perss. & Wendelbo - Turkey # ''

Hyacinthella dalmatica ''Hyacinthella'' is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae).Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards),Asparagales: Scilloideae, ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2013 ...

'' Chouard - Croatia # '' Hyacinthella glabrescens'' (Boiss.) K.Perss. & Wendelbo - Turkey # '' Hyacinthella heldreichii'' (Boiss.) Chouard - Turkey # '' Hyacinthella hispida'' (J.Gay) Chouard - Turkey # '' Hyacinthella lazulina'' K.Perss.& Jim.Perss. - Turkey # '' Hyacinthella leucophaea'' (K.Koch) Schur - Balkans, Russia, Ukraine # '' Hyacinthella lineata'' (Steud. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Chouard - Turkey # '' Hyacinthella micrantha'' (Boiss.) Chouard - Turkey # '' Hyacinthella millingenii'' (Post) Feinbrun - Turkey, Cyprus # '' Hyacinthella nervosa'' (Bertol.) Chouard - Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan # '' Hyacinthella pallasiana'' (Steven) Losinsk. - Russia, Ukraine # '' Hyacinthella persica'' (Boiss. & Buhse) Chouard - Iran # '' Hyacinthella siirtensis'' B.Mathew - Turkey # '' Hyacinthella venusta'' K.Perss. - Turkey

Cultivation

Some species are in cultivation, where they require a dry summer rest and are not suitable for growing in the open garden in areas with cooler, wetter summers.

References

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