Hemerocallis L.
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12. Hemerocallis L. 1
Glabrous, rhizomatous, more or less scapose perennial herbs with tuberous roots. Leaves mainly basal, distichous, linear. Stem erect, sometimes with a few small leaves. Inflorescence terminal, consisting of 2 subequal, cymose branches. Flowers yellow or reddish. Perianth infundibuliform, the tube shorter than the recurved lobes; veins numerous. Stamens and style curved upwards; filaments inserted on perianth-tube; anthers dorsifixed, introrse. Fruit a loculicidal capsule; seeds rather few.
Literature: L. H. Bailey, Gentes Herb. 2: 143-156 (1930).
Flowers bright yellow, fragrant; margins of perianth-lobes plane
1. lilioasphodelus Flowers dull orange, not fragrant; margins of inner perianth-lobes undulate 2. fulva
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