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(Last Modified On 10/26/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/26/2012)
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Species
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PANCRATIUM LITTORALE Jacq
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PlaceOfPublication
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Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 99. t. 179, fig. 94. 1766.
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Synonym
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Hymenocallis littoralis (Jacq.) Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 1:338. 1812. Pancratium americanum Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 7. 1768. Hymenocallis Dryandri M. Roem. Fam. Nat. Syn. 4:175. 1847. Hymenocallis disticha Herb. App. Bot. Reg. 7:44. 1821. Hymenocallis acutifolia M. Roem. loc. cit. 174. 1847. Hymenocallis Staplesiana M. Roem. loc. cit. 175. 1847. Hymenocallis americana (L.) Salisb. ex Standl. Fl. Pan. Canal Zone, 115. 1928, sphalm.
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Description
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Bulbs ovoid, 5-8 cm. long; leaves lorate, sessile, gradually acute to obtuse, 6-8 dm.' long, 2-3 cm. broad, basal; flowering scape compres- sed, 3-6 dm. long, bearing numerous showy white flowers at the tip; perianth tube 15-20 cm. long, about 0.15 cm. thick, the lobes nar- rowly linear, 9-12 cm. long, reflexed; corona broadly funnel-shaped, 2.0-2.5 cm. deep, about 3-3.5 cm. in diameter at the margin; staminal filaments very slender, 4.5-5.5 cm. long; style about equalling the anthers.
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Distribution
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Widely distributed from the southeastern United States southward throughout the Antilles and tropical America generally; very common on sea beaches and coastal marshes.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Water Valley, von Wedel II45. PANAMA: Trapiche Island, Bay of Panama, Allen 2625.
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Note
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Pancratium is the "Spider Lily" of the southeastern United States.
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Common
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Spider Lily
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