'' Phycella cyrtanthoides'' Traubiinae is a subtribe 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 of the Amaryllis

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( Amaryllidaceae).

Description

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perennial A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wid ...

herbaceous plants, terrestrial in habitat. Leaves linear or lorate, 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 Traub's original use of Traubeae for the same purpose. Created from a redistribution of genera of Hippeastreae following a molecular phylogenetic 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 ''

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'' were polyphyletic and ''F. maulensis'' segregated with ''Phycella'' and was consequently transferred: The generic distribution here is based on Garcia et al 2019. * 'Placea'' previous genus* ''

Phycella ''Phycella'' is a genus of herbaceous, perennial bulbous flowering plants belonging to the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. The genus consists of five species distributed from central Chile to northwestern Argentina. Taxonomy ...

'' (~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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