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Genus of flowering plants

Brimeura
Brimeura amethystina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Genus: Brimeura
Salisb.
Type species
Brimeura amethystina
L.
Synonyms
  • Sarcomphalium Dulac
  • Charistemma Janka

Brimeura is a genus of bulb-forming, monocotyledonous perennial plants. They have narrow leaves and bear bluebell-like flowers in Spring. Brimeura is treated in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, tribe Hyacintheae, subtribe Hyacinthinae. It contains the following species

Salisbury states that he named the genus in honour of the seventeenth century Netherlandish botanist and horticulturalist, Marie de Brimeu.

The genus is native to southeastern Europe and certain islands of the western Mediterranean. The species B. amethystina (formerly Hyacinthus amethystina) has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

References

  1. ^ Salisbury & Gray 1866.
  2. ^ Goñalons 2014.
  3. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
  5. Pfosser et al 2003.
  6. Stevens 2017.
  7. "RHS Plant Selector - Brimeura amethystina". Retrieved 15 April 2020.

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Taxon identifiers
Brimeura


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