Biology:Clinanthus elwesii
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Short description: Species of plant
| Clinanthus elwesii | |
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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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| Binomial name | |
| Clinanthus elwesii (Baker) Meerow
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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.
Description
A herbaceous plant. Prominent characteristics include flowers with a corolla which consists of six connate tepals.[3][4]
Reproductive biology
The pollen of C. elwesii is shed as permanent tetrads.[5]
References
- ↑ "Clinanthus elwesii (Baker) Meerow". theplantlist.org. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-302648. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ↑ "Clinanthus elwesii (Baker) Meerow". The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d.. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1170440-2.
- ↑ Baker, J.G. (1878). "New Garden Plants". The Gardeners' Chronicle n.s.:v.9: 756. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84216.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q15505346 entry
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