Clinanthus elwesii explained

Clinanthus elwesii is a species of plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Peru.^[1] 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.^{[2] [3]}

Reproductive biology

The pollen of C. elwesii is shed as permanent tetrads.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Clinanthus elwesii (Baker) Meerow . . n.d. . Plants of the World Online . The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . December 21, 2018.
2. Baker . J.G. . 1878 . New Garden Plants . The Gardeners' Chronicle . New series. 9 . 756.
3. Meerow. Alan W.. Guy. Charles L.. Li. Qin-Bao. Yang. Si-Lin. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae Based on nrDNA ITS Sequences. Systematic Botany. 25. 4. 2000. 708. 0363-6445. 10.2307/2666729. 2666729. 20392462.
4. Meerow . Alan W. . Dehgan . Nancy B. . Dehgan . Bijan . Pollen Tetrads in Stenomesson elwesii (Amaryllidaceae) . . November 1986 . 73 . 11 . 1642 . 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1986.tb10916.x.