Zephyrantheae Salisb. is a now obsolete

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within the American clade of

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Amaryllidaceae ( subfamily Amaryllidoideae), containing five genera (''

Habranthus ''Habranthus'' (copperlily) was a formerly recognized genus of tender herbaceous flowering bulbs in the subfamily Amaryllidoideae of the family Amaryllidaceae. It is now included within a more broadly circumscribed genus ''Zephyranthes''. The gen ...

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Pyrolirion ''Pyrolirion'', commonly known as fire lilies or flame lilies, is a small genus of herbaceous, bulb-forming South American plants in the Amaryllis family, native to Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. Description ''Pyrolirion'' have thin linear leaves ...

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

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Sprekelia ''Sprekelia'' was a genus of Mesoamerican plants in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. ''Sprekelia'' plants are sometimes called Aztec lilies or Jacobean lilies although they are not true lilies. This genus is now submerged in ''Z ...

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Zephyranthes ''Zephyranthes'' is a genus of temperate and tropical plants in the Amaryllis family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae, native to the Western Hemisphere and widely cultivated as ornamentals. Following the expansion of the genus in 2019, which n ...

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

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absent, stem leafless,

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many,

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tube present, flowers solitary or paired.

Taxonomy

Richard Anthony Salisbury Richard Anthony Salisbury, FRS (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 ...

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&nb ...

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