Biology:Dichelostemma

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Dichelostemma
Dichelostemma volubile.jpg
Dichelostemma volubile
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Brodiaeoideae
Genus: Dichelostemma
Kunth[1]
Type species
Dichelostemma congestum
(Sm.) Kunth[2]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Brodiaea subg. Dichelostemma (Kunth) Eastw.
  • Stropholirion Torr.
  • Rupalleya Morière
  • Brevoortia Alph.Wood
  • Macroscapa Kellogg ex Curran
  • Dipterostemon Rydb.

Dichelostemma is a genus of North American plants closely related to the genus Brodiaea and sometimes regarded as part of that group.[4][5]

Dichelostemma is classified in the cluster-lily subfamily within the asparagus family.[6] in the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (2009).[7] Older sources often placed it in the lily family; earlier versions of the APG classifications used the family Themidaceae.

The genus is native to the North America, especially in northern California , but also east to New Mexico and north to British Columbia and south into northwestern Mexico.[4][8]

These plants grow from perennial corms that produce a raceme or umbel-like inflorescence. The flowers are bell- or tube-shaped and produce capsules with black seeds. The name, from the Greek for "toothed crown", refers to the stamen appendages.

Diversity

Species[3][8][9]
Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Dichelostemma congestum - Jardin des Plantes.jpg Dichelostemma congestum (Sm.) Kunth ookow or fork-toothed ookow. Canada (BC), United States (WA OR California )
Dichelostemma ida-maia - Flickr - peganum (1).jpg Dichelostemma ida-maia (Alph.Wood) Greene firecracker flower United States (California OR)
Dichelostemma multiflorum -紐西蘭 Dunedin Botanic Garden, New Zealand- (31543569167).jpg Dichelostemma multiflorum (Benth.) A.Heller round-tooth snake-lily, many-flower brodiaea and wild hyacinth United States (California OR)
Dichelostemma volubile.jpg Dichelostemma volubile (Kellogg) A.Heller twining snakelily and twining brodiaea. United States (California OR)

Dichelostemma capitatum (Benth.) Alph.Wood – blue dicks – has been moved to Dipterostemon capitatus.[10][11]

Cultivars
  • Dichelostemma 'Pink Diamond' - probably D. ida-maia × D. congestum (sometimes called Dichelostemma congestum).

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2707782 entry