Zephyranthinae was a

subtribe Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus. The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals) or -inae (in plants Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plant ...

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 belonged to the

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Amaryllidoideae Amaryllidoideae (Amaryllidaceae ''s.s.'', amaryllids) is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. The most recent APG classification, APG III, takes a broad view of the Amaryllidaceae, which then ...

of the Amaryllis

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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 amaryllis fa ...

). They are generally small plants with solitary flowers.

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s are fused forming a tube surrounding the

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of the flower. Most of its members were commonly known as rain lilies. It included four

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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 no ...

'' Herb. *''Cooperia'' Herb. – now subsumed in ''Zephyranthes'' *''Habranthus'' Herb. – now subsumed in ''Zephyranthes'' *'' Sprekelia'' Heist. - Aztec lilies. Members of the former genus ''Haylockia'' are also now classified under ''Zephyranthes''. '' Pyrolirion'' (fire lilies), once often included under ''Zephyranthes'', is now considered to be a distinct genus and placed in the tribe

Eustephieae Eustephieae is a tribe (in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae), where it forms part of the Andean clade, one of two American clades. Taxonomy Phylogeny This tribe was resurrected from the Stenomesseae in 1995 by Meero ...

. Following the application of

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the subtribe was found to be polyphyletic and subsequently dispersed amongst two other Hippeastreae subtribes.

References

Amaryllidoideae Plant subtribes Historically recognized angiosperm taxa {{Amaryllidaceae-stub