Hippeastrum mirum

Hippeastrum mirum is a species of herbaceous perennial bulbous flowering plants in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. It was formerly treated as Tocantinia mira.

Hippeastrum mirum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Amaryllidoideae
Subtribe:	Hippeastrinae
Genus:	Hippeastrum
Species:	H. mirum
Binomial name
Hippeastrum mirum (Ravenna) Christenh. & Byng
Synonyms
Tocantinia mira Ravenna

Watershed of Araguaia and Tocantins river systems (yellow), through Tocantins State (outlined), Brazil

Description

The flowers are single, the stigma capitate. Spathe bracts are lanceolate, with a single valve.

Distribution and habitat

Tocantinia mira grows in a dry forest of Brazil between the rivers Araguaia and Tocantins.

Bibliography

• "The Plant List: a working list of all known plant species. Version: 1.1". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. September 2013.
• "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
• García, Nicolás; Meerow, Alan W.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Soltis, Pamela S. (1 March 2014). "Testing Deep Reticulate Evolution in Amaryllidaceae Tribe Hippeastreae (Asparagales) with ITS and Chloroplast Sequence Data". Systematic Botany. 39 (1): 75–89. doi:10.1600/036364414X678099. S2CID 86117335.
• Ravenna, P. F. (2000). "Tocantinia and Cearanthes, two new genera, and Tocantinieae new tribe, of Brazilian Amarylidaceae". Onira. 5 (3): 9–43.
• Byng, James W. (2014). The Flowering Plants Handbook: A Practical Guide to Families and Genera of the World. Plant Gateway Ltd. ISBN 978-0992999308.
• "Pacific Bulb Society". Pacific Bulb Society. 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2016.

External links

• Tocantinia at JSTOR