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Hemerocallidaceae

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Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 3))

Abstract

Perennials, caespitose or rhizomatous, terrestrial, herbaceous or shrubby; aerial stems prostrate or to about 2 m tall. Leaves distributed along elongated or shortened stems or only in terminal tufts, distichous with sheathing bases which are usually keeled and strongly compressed, occasionally rounded. Inflorescence terminal, of a solitary flower or a variously branched panicle; flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic (Phormium and Hemerocallis), articulated on pedicels; perianth wholly or partially marcescent, not twisting after anthesis (except Agrostocrinum, Pasithea and Xeronema); tepals 6, free or shortly united into a tube, the whorls subequal or the inner slightly longer than the outer; stamens 6, free or slightly connate at the base; if free, hypogynous or inserted on tepal bases, if connate, 3 hypogynous and 3 affixed to the tepals (Eccremis); anther filaments ornamented or unornamented; anthers basifixed or peltate, dehiscing latrorsely by pores or slits, erect or recurved, especially after anthesis; ovary syncarpous, superior, half-inferior (Pasithea) and either 3- or 1-locular; style simple, terminating in a small capitate stigma or tuft of short hairs; septal nectaries except in Phormium and Hemerocallis; ovules anatropous, on axile or parietal placentas; ovules 1-numerous per placenta. Fruit a berry or capsule; seeds black without an elaiosome.

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Clifford, H.T., Henderson, R.J.F., Conran, J.G. (1998). Hemerocallidaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03533-7_32

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