Hymenocallis tubiflora

Hymenocallis tubiflora is a plant species from Trinidad and northern South America. It is reported from Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and northern Brazil.[3] The name was originally coined in 1812,[4] the description based on a specimen grown at Kew Botanical Garden in London, the bulb having been seized by British sailors from a French ship captured by the Royal Navy in 1803.[5]

Hymenocallis tubiflora
Hymenocallis tubiflora[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Hymenocallis
Species:
H. tubiflora
Binomial name
Hymenocallis tubiflora
Synonyms[2]
  • Hymenocallis borskiani de Vriese
  • Hymenocallis boschiana (Walp.) Kunth
  • Hymenocallis guianensis (Ker Gawl.) Herb.
  • Hymenocallis guianensis var. princeps Herb.
  • Hymenocallis guianensis var. undulata (Kunth) Herb.
  • Hymenocallis moritziana Kunth
  • Hymenocallis moritziana var. major Worsley
  • Hymenocallis petiolata (Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) M.Roem.
  • Hymenocallis undulata (Kunth) Herb.
  • Pancratium boschianum Walp.
  • Pancratium guianense Ker Gawl.
  • Pancratium moritzianum (Kunth) Steyerm.
  • Pancratium petiolatum Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Pancratium triphyllum Willd. ex M.Roem.
  • Pancratium tubiflorum (Salisb.) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Pancratium tubulosum Willd. ex B.D.Jacks.
  • Pancratium undulatum Kunth

Hymenocallis tubiflora is a bulb-forming perennial. It has broadly lanceolate leaves up to 60 cm long, tapering at the tip and narrowing below to a long petiole. Flowers are white, borne in an umbel; tepals long and narrow, frequently drooping at flowering time; staminal cup short. Anthers yellow, borne on long filaments.[4][6]

Gardening

The species is widely cultivated in tropical countries because of its attractive, fragrant floral display. It is reported naturalized in Malaysia.[7] It can also be grown in temperate countries with proper care and protection from cold weather.[8][9]

References
  1. 1818 illustration from Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London 4: t. 265. As Pancratium guianense
  2. The Plant List
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Salisbury, Richard Anthony. 1812. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 1: 341.
  5. Tropicos, Hymenocallis tubiflora
  6. Ker Gawler, John Bellenden. 1818. Botanical Register t. 265, Pancratium guianense
  7. Amaryllis garden, about Amaryllis and about gardening in Malaysia, Hymenocallis tubiflora
  8. "Rare Plants United Kingdom, Hymenocallis tubiflora". Archived from the original on 2010-12-29. Retrieved 2014-03-31.
  9. Garden Drum, beating a new path, Hymenocallis tubiflora
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