Hippeastrum psittacinum

Hippeastrum psittacinum (Parrot Amaryllis) is a flowering perennial herbaceous bulbous plant, in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to Brazil.[1]

Hippeastrum psittacinum
Hippeastrum psittacinum by Priscilla Susan Falkner
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Hippeastrum
Species:
H. psittacinum
Binomial name
Hippeastrum psittacinum
Synonyms

Amaryllis psittacina
Ker Gawl.[2] Basionym
Trisacarpis psittacina
(Ker Gawl.) Raf. [3]
Aschamia psittacina
(Ker Gawl.) Salisb.[4]

Amaryllis psittacina. Botanical Register[5]

Description

Leaves, up to 8, strap like, length 45 cm. height 60 cm. Flowers, four trumpet shaped. Tubes short, green-white with spreading lobes, crimson stripes, and wavy crimson margins.[6]

Taxonomy

Described by John Bellenden Ker Gawler in 1817 as Amaryllis, but transferred to Hippeastrum by William Herbert in 1821.[1]

‘The present is the fifth unrecorded Amaryllis from the Brazils which has been published in this work out of the collection of Mr. Griffin. To have been the first to bring within the sphere of science and into culture an equal number of plants, belonging to a same remote region, of a same genus, and all interesting, either on the score of curiosity or beauty, within little more than two years, has probably never before been the chance of any single collector in Europe. The bulb was sent about 3 years ago by Mr. E. Woodford, from Rio Janeiro; and flowered in Mr. Griffin’s hothouse at South Lambeth in March last.’ Ker Gawler[2]

Heterotypic Synonyms
  • Amaryllis illustris Vell., Fl. Flumin. 3: 131 (1829).
  • Leopoldia illustris (Vell.) M.Roem., Fam. Nat. Syn. Monogr. 4: 130 (1847).
  • Hippeastrum decoratum Lem., Jard. Fleur. 4: t. 338 (1854).
  • Amaryllis psittacina var. decorata (Lem.) Traub & Uphof, Herbertia 6: 154 (1940).
  • Hippeastrum illustre (Vell.) Dutilh, Taxon 46: 17 (1997).

Etymology

psittacinum: Latin like a parrot

References
  1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Hippeastrum petiolatum.
  2. Bot. Reg. 3: t. 199 (1817)
  3. Fl. Tellur. 4: 11 (1838)
  4. Gen. Pl.: 134 (1866), nom. inval.
  5. Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London 3: t. 199. 1817
  6. Colin Mills. Hippeastrum psittacinum, Hortus Camdenensis May 09, 2009

Sources
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