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Hymenocallis puntagordensis

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Species of flowering plant

Hymenocallis puntagordensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Hymenocallis
Species: H. puntagordensis
Binomial name
Hymenocallis puntagordensis
Traub
Synonyms

Hymenocallis latifolia var. puntagordensis (Traub) D. B. Ward

Hymenocallis puntagordensis the smallcup spiderlily or Punta Gorda spiderlily, is a plant in the Amaryllidaceae. It is a rare and little known endemic known only from the vicinity of Punta Gorda, in Charlotte County, Florida. This is on the Gulf coast just north of Fort Myers. The species is listed as "critically imperiled."

Hymenocallis puntagordensis is a bulb-forming perennial found on roadsides and in disturbed pine woodlands. It is similar to H. latifolia, differing in having narrower, coriaceous leaves and a staminal corona with prominently lacerate margins.

References

  1. ^ Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
  2. The Plant List
  3. ^ Flora of North America vol 26, p 291.
  4. Traub, Plant Life 18:71. 1962
  5. Institute for Regional Conservation, Floristic Inventory of South Florida Database
  6. Hymenocallis latifolia (Miller) M. Roemer, var. puntagordensis (Traub) D. B. Ward, Phytologia 94: 463. 2012.
Taxon identifiers
Hymenocallis puntagordensis
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