''Hymenocallis sonorensis'' is a species of plant in the family
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 amaryllis fa ...
, known from several locations in the southern part of the
Mexican
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** People
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State of
Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is d ...
, as well as the neighboring States of
Sinaloa
Sinaloa (), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. It is d ...
and
Nayarit.
[Standley, Paul Carpenter. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 17: 229 1937]
''Hymenocallis sonorensis'' is a bulb-forming perennial with showy white flowers. Two other species of the genus are found in Sonora,
''H. pimana'' and
''H. clivorum''.
[Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1993). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(1): 1-76. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.]
References
sonorensis
Flora of Mexico
Plants described in 1937
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