Pancratium zeylanicum
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Pancratium zeylanicum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
Genus: | Pancratium |
Species: | P. zeylanicum
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Binomial name | |
Pancratium zeylanicum |
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Pancratium zeylanicum, commonly known as the Javanese lily[2]: 46 is a bulbous perennial herb native to Borneo, Java, the Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, and the Philippines.[3]
It is sometimes grown as a hothouse container plant. It does not have a rest period unless water is withheld. It propagates by producing offsets and seed.
The pollinator is a moth with a very long proboscis. Flowers are white with narrow tepals and long teeth along the margin of the staminal corona.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ IPNI Publication Details
- ^ Rumpf, Georg Eberhard (2003). Rumphius' Orchids: Orchid Texts from the Ambonese Herbal. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300129311.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 290