Clinanthus elwesii is a species of plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Peru.[2] John Gilbert Baker, the English botanist who first formally described the species using the synonymous name Callithauma viridiflorum var. elwesii, named it in after Henry John Elwes, another English botanist who grew the specimen Baker examined.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
| Genus: | Clinanthus |
| Species: | C. elwesii
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Description
editA herbaceous plant. Prominent characteristics include flowers with a corolla which consists of six connate tepals.[3][4]
Reproductive biology
editThe pollen of C. elwesii is shed as permanent tetrads.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Clinanthus elwesii (Baker) Meerow". The Plant List. theplantlist.org. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ "Clinanthus elwesii (Baker) Meerow". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ Baker, J.G. (1878). "New Garden Plants". The Gardeners' Chronicle. New series. 9: 756.
- ^ Meerow, Alan W.; Guy, Charles L.; Li, Qin-Bao; Yang, Si-Lin (2000). "Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae Based on nrDNA ITS Sequences". Systematic Botany. 25 (4): 708. doi:10.2307/2666729. ISSN 0363-6445. JSTOR 2666729. S2CID 20392462.
- ^ Meerow, Alan W.; Dehgan, Nancy B.; Dehgan, Bijan (November 1986). "Pollen Tetrads in Stenomesson elwesii (Amaryllidaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 73 (11): 1642. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1986.tb10916.x.