Urceolina × grandiflora, formerly known as Eucharis × grandiflora, is a natural hybrid putatively between U. moorei and U. sanderi of the family Amaryllidaceae, native to western Colombia and western Ecuador.[1]
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| The illustration of Urceolina × grandiflora in the original publication. The green lines below the staminal cup are filamental traces along the perianth tube. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
| Genus: | Urceolina |
| Species: | U. × grandiflora
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| Binomial name | |
| Urceolina × grandiflora | |
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The aneutriploid species U. amazonica is often misidentified as U. × grandiflora. Both of them are sterile plants with large fragrant white flowers, but they differ in leaf length, free filament shape, and staminal cup length:[2]
- U. × grandiflora has shorter leaf blades (20–33 cm × (10–)13–16 cm), linear or narrowly subulate free filaments (1–1.5 mm wide at the base), and staminal cups (5–7 mm long to the apex of teeth) shorter than free filaments (7–8.5(–10) mm long).
- U. amazonica has longer leaf blades ((20–)30–40(–50) cm × (10–)12–18 cm), subulate free filaments (2.8–3.4 mm wide at the base), and staminal cups (11.2–13.8 mm long to the apex of teeth) longer than free filaments (6.5–8(–10) mm long).
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U. × grandiflora has shorter leaf blades, slender free filaments, and staminal cups shorter than free filaments. -
U. amazonica has longer leaf blades, flat free filaments, and staminal cups longer than free filaments.
References
edit- ^ a b "Urceolina × grandiflora (Planch. & Linden) Traub". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ Meerow, Alan W. (1989). "Systematics of the Amazon lilies, Eucharis and Caliphruria (Amaryllidaceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 76 (1): 136–220. doi:10.2307/2399347. ISSN 0026-6493. JSTOR 2399347.
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