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Amaryllidaceae Description DistributionA family of over 80 genera and 1000 species. Represented in Pakistan by 3 wild genera and 4 species. Besides these many other species are cultivated in Pakistan for their attractive flowers. Detailed Description Plants with bulbs, corms or rhizomes. Leaves radical or cauline; linear to lanceolate. Flowers on a scape or on the main stem in clusters o r sometimes solitary, hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual, regular or zygomorphic. Perianth of 6 tepals, free or slightly united at the base. Stamens 6, occasionally staminodal, sometimes with extensions forming a corona. Carpels 3, united, inferior. Placentation axile. Fruit capsular with loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds few to many. Identification key of Amaryllidaceae
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Leaves radical and cauline. Flowers on a leafy stem, light purple to deep-violet
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Leaves all radical. Flowers on a short scape from the base. Flowers yellow
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Leaves linear. All flowers hermaphrodite, ovary just below the tepals
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Leaves lanceolate. Lower flowers on scape hermaphrodite, upper staminate. Ovary and tepals separated by a long stipe
Floral Diagram of Amaryllidaceae Floral Formula of Amaryllidaceae
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