Hymenocallis palmeri: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
- Genus
- Hymenocallis
- Species
- Hymenocallis palmeri
- Scientific Name
- Hymenocallis palmeri
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hymenocallis palmeri
Hymenocallis palmeri is a plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. Common name is alligator-lily. It is endemic to Florida, found in cypress swamps, wet meadows, open pine woodlands and wet roadsides.
Hymenocallis palmeri produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 4 cm across. Leaves are bluish green, up to 65 cm long and 10 mm across. Umbels have only 1 or 2 flowers, if 2 then opening one at a time. Flowers are erect, funnel-shaped, white with a greenish eye in the center and teeth along the margins of the staminal corona. Seeds are green, egg-shaped, up to 20 mm in diameter.
...Hymenocallis palmeri in languages:
- English
- Alligator lily
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Hymenocallis acutifolia
- Hymenocallis adnata
- Hymenocallis araniflora
- Hymenocallis arenicola
- Hymenocallis astrostephana
- Hymenocallis azteciana
- Hymenocallis baumlii
- Hymenocallis caribaea
- Hymenocallis choctawensis
- Hymenocallis choretis
- Hymenocallis cleo
- Hymenocallis clivorum
- Hymenocallis concinna
- Hymenocallis cordifolia
- Hymenocallis coronaria
- Hymenocallis crassifolia
- Hymenocallis durangoensis
- Hymenocallis duvalensis
- Hymenocallis eucharidifolia
- Hymenocallis fragrans
- Hymenocallis franklinensis
- Hymenocallis gholsonii
- Hymenocallis glauca
- Hymenocallis godfreyi
- Hymenocallis graminifolia
- Hymenocallis guerreroensis
- Hymenocallis harrisiana
- Hymenocallis henryae
- Hymenocallis howardii
- Hymenocallis imperialis
- Hymenocallis jaliscensis
- Hymenocallis latifolia
- Hymenocallis leavenworthii
- Hymenocallis lehmilleri
- Hymenocallis liriosme
- Hymenocallis littoralis
- Hymenocallis longibracteata
- Hymenocallis maximiliani
- Hymenocallis multiflora
- Hymenocallis occidentalis
- Hymenocallis palmeri
- Hymenocallis partita
- Hymenocallis phalangidis
- Hymenocallis pimana
- Hymenocallis portamonetensis
- Hymenocallis proterantha
- Hymenocallis pumila
- Hymenocallis punta-gordensis
- Hymenocallis pygmaea
- Hymenocallis rotata
- Hymenocallis sonorensis
- Hymenocallis speciosa
- Hymenocallis tridentata
- Hymenocallis tubiflora
- Hymenocallis vasconcelosii
- Hymenocallis venezuelensis
- Hymenocallis woelfleana
- Hymenocallis ximixtlanensis































































































































































