Spatholirion

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Commelinaless

Familia: Commelinaceae
Subfamilia: Commelinoideae
Tribus: Tradescantieae
Subtribus: Streptoliriinae
Genus: Spatholirion
Species: S. calcicola – S. decumbens – S. elegans – S. longifolium – S. ornatum – S. puluongense
Name

Spatholirion Ridl., J. Bot. 34: 329 (1896)

Type species: Spatholirion ornatum Ridl., J. Bot. 34: 329 (1896)

References

Ridley, H.N. (1890) Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 34: 329. BHL
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Spatholirion in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Aug 29. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Spatholirion. Published online. Accessed: Aug 29 2015.
Tropicos.org 2015. Spatholirion. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Aug 29.

Spatholirion is a genus of climbing or rosette monocotyledonous flowering plants in the dayflower family. It is distributed from China in the north, south to Thailand, Vietnam, and northern Peninsular Malaysia.[2][3][4][5] It has four to eight seeds per carpel, unlike the closely related Streptolirion, which has only two, and white or purple petals.[4] The inflorescence axis of Spatholirion longifolium and all of its branches are a bright purple, probably aiding in visual pollinator attraction.[6] The genus was first described in 1896 by Henry Nicholas Ridley, the father of the commercial rubber industry, from plants sent to Kew Gardens from the Malay Peninsula near the border between Thailand and Malaysia.[7] All species have a diploid chromosome number of 20.[5]

Species[2]

Spatholirion calcicola K.Larsen & S.S.Larsen - Thailand
Spatholirion decumbens Fukuoka & N.Kurosaki - Thailand
Spatholirion elegans (Cherfils) C.Y.Wu - Yunnan, Vietnam
Spatholirion longifolium (Gagnep.) Dunn - Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
Spatholirion ornatum Ridl. - Peninsular Malaysia
Spatholirion puluongense Aver. - Vietnam

References

Lithograph from J. DeAlwis, R. Morgan, & W. Newman - Journal of Botany, British & Foreign; Volume 34, Tab. 360, 1896;
"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org.
Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 20 竹叶吉祥草属 zhu ye ji xiang cao shu Spatholirion Ridley, J. Bot. 34: 329. 1896.
Hong, Deyuan; DeFillipps, Robert A. (2000), "Spatholirion", in Wu, Z. Y.; Raven, P.H.; Hong, D.Y. (ed.), Flora of China, 20, Beijing: Science Press; St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press, p. 20, retrieved 2008-01-28
Larsen, Kai; Larsen, Supee Saksuwan (2003), "A new species of Spatholirion (Commelinaceae) from Thailand and further notes on S. ornatum", Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany), 31: 39–43
Faden, Robert B. (1992), "Floral Attraction and Floral Hairs in the Commelinaceae", Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 79 (1): 46–52, doi:10.2307/2399808, JSTOR 2399808
Ridley, Henry N. (1896), "A New Genus of Commelinaceae", Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 43: 329–330