Lycoris (plant)

Pink Red Spider Lily ( Lycoris radiata) in Korea

The spider lilies ( Lycoris ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae family ( Amaryllidaceae ).

Description

Lycoris species are perennial herbaceous plants. These geophytes form oval to spherical onions with brown to black - brown wrapper ( " Tunic " ) as outlasting. The basal leaves are simple, linear, sessile and smooth. The leaves appear before the flowers bloom.

Four to eight flowers are in a terminal, doldigen inflorescence with two membranous bracts together on an upright, long, not hollow inflorescence stem. The more or less upright, androgynous, almost radial symmetry, the threefold flowers are zygomorphic to radial symmetry. The six more or less diverse, trumpet-shaped fused bracts ( tepals ) are white, cream to golden- colored, pink to bright red. The edge of the bloom is sometimes wavy. It is sometimes a ring of six scales or filaments in the throat of the corolla tube present. The six stamens are short fused with the bloom cladding. Three carpels are fused into one inferior ovary, which contains a few ovules. The thin style ends in a very small, capitate stigma.

There are usually three -edged, dreifächerige capsule fruits formed, containing few smooth, black, nearly spherical seeds.

Systematics and distribution

The genus name refers to the beautiful Lycoris Lycoris, a mistress of Mark Antony.

Lycoris species are native to Asia. There are species in China, India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam. In China, 15 species occur, ten of which are found only there.

The genus Lycoris belongs to the tribe Lycoridae within the family of the Amaryllis family ( Amaryllidaceae ).

Species

There are a total of about 23 Lycoris species:

  • Lycoris albiflora Koidz.
  • Lycoris anhuiensis Y.Xu & G.J.Fan
  • Lycoris argentea Worsley
  • Lycoris aurea (L' Hér. ) Herb. ( Syn: Lycoris africana ( Lam.) M.Roem. ), Origin: China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan
  • Lycoris caldwellii Traub
  • Lycoris × chejuensis K.H.Tae & S.C.Ko
  • Lycoris chinensis Traub
  • Lycoris flavescens M.Kim & S. Lee
  • Lycoris guangxiensis Y.Xu & G.J.Fan
  • Lycoris haywardii Traub
  • Lycoris houdyshelii Traub
  • Lycoris hunanensis MH Quan, LJ Ou CW & She
  • Lycoris incarnata Comes ex Sprenger, Origin: Central China
  • Lycoris josephinae Traub
  • Lycoris koreana Nakai
  • Lycoris longituba Y.C.Hsu & G.J.Fan
  • Pink Red Spider Lily ( Lycoris radiata (L' Hér ) Herb.. ), Origin: Japan, Ryukyu Islands
  • Lycoris rosea Traub & Moldenke
  • Black Red spider lily ( Lycoris sanguinea Maxim. ), Origin: China, Japan
  • Lycoris shaanxiensis Y.Xu & Z.B.Hu
  • Lycoris sprengeri Comes ex Baker, Origin: Central China
  • White Spider Lily ( Lycoris squamigera Maxim. ), Origin: Japan
  • Lycoris straminea Lindl.
  • Lycoris uydoensis M.Kim

Use

There are some varieties that are used as ornamental plants in parks and gardens.

Swell

  • Zhanhe Ji & Alan W. Meerow: Amaryllidaceae: Lycoris, pp. 266 - text the same online as printed work, In: Wu Zheng -yi, Peter H. Raven (eds.): Flora of China, Volume 24 - Flagellariaceae through Marantaceae, Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis, 2000. ISBN 0-915279-83-5
  • A.W. Meerow, M. F. Fay, C. L. Guy, Q.B. Li, F.Q. Zaman & M. W. Chase: Systematic of Amaryllidaceae based on cladistic analysis of plastid rbcL and TML -F sequences of data. in American Journal of Botany, 86, 1999, pp. 1325-1345.
  • P. S. Hsu, S. Kurita, Z. Z. Yu & J.Z. Lin: A synopsis of the genus Lycoris ( Amaryllidaceae ), in Sida, Volume 16 (2 ), 1994, pp. 301-331.
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