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|accepted_name=Ornithogalum
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 306. 1753
|year=1753
}}{{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 145. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Star-of-Bethlehem;ornithogale;dame-d’onze-heures;étoile de Bethléem
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Ornithogalum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ornithogalum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek, ornis, bird, and gala, milk, alluding to the color of the flowers
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 53, 58
|treatment_page=page 318
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, scapose, poisonous, from ovoid, tunicate bulbs; bulb tunics white to pale brown, papery. <b>Leaves</b> few to several, basal; blade linear to lanceolate, margins smooth or hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemose or corymbose, 2–many-flowered, bracteate; bracts white, membranous. <b>Flowers</b>: tepals 6, widely spreading, distinct, equal to slightly unequal; stamens 6, distinct, dimorphic; filaments simple or 3-dentate, flattened; anthers dorsifixed, introrse; ovary superior, green, 3-locular, cylindric to globose, 6-angled, septal nectaries present; style 1; stigma margins entire or indistinctly 3-lobed. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, angled, papery, dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> numerous, globose to ovoid. <b>x</b> = 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;Africa;w Asia.
|discussion=<p>Species 100–150 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Ornithogalum</i> is a large genus centered in South Africa and around the Mediterranean, with numerous species of horticultural note. <i>Ornithogalum</i> pyrenaicum Linnaeus was apparently naturalized for a number of years at Elkins, West Virginia (E. E. Hutton and R. E. Clarkson 1961), but it is now extirpated from that site. <i>Ornithogalum</i> arabicum Linnaeus, Arabian star flower, O. caudatum Aiton, sea-onion, and O. thyrsoides Jacquin, chincherinchee, are frequently cultivated in the warmer parts of the flora area.</p><!--
--><p>The bulbs of <i>Ornithogalum</i> species are poisonous due to the presence of a variety of cardiotoxic cardenolides (G. E. Burrows and R. J. Tyrl 2001), and the bulbs should not be confused with those of wild onions.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=doblies1996a
|text=Doblies, U. and D. Müller-Doblies. 1996. Revisionula incompleta Ornithogalorum Austro-Africanorum. Feddes Repert. 107: 361–548.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=moret1992a
|text=Moret, J. and N. Galland. 1992. Phenetic, biogeographical, and evolutionary study of Ornithogalum subg. Heliocharmos (Hyacinthaceae) in the western Mediterranean Basin. Pl. Syst. Evol. 181: 179–202.  Müller-
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|id=zahariadi1962a
|text=Zahariadi, C. 1962. Caractères morphologiques, anatomiques et biologiques dans la taxonomie du genre Ornithogalum. Rev. Biol. (Bucharest), n. s. 7: 5–41.
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|1
|Leaves 5–10 mm wide; inflorescences racemose, cylindrical, 5–12(–18)-flowered; lower pedicels to 1 cm; flowers nodding, especially after anthesis; filaments 3-dentate.
|[[Ornithogalum nutans|Ornithogalum nutans]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves 3–5 mm wide; inflorescences corymbose, flat-topped, (4–)8–20-flowered; lower pedicels 2–6 cm; flowers erect; filaments simple.
|[[Ornithogalum umbellatum|Ornithogalum umbellatum]]
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name=Ornithogalum
|author=Gerald B. Straley†;Frederick H. Utech
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=Europe;Africa;w Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=doblies1996a;moret1992a;zahariadi1962a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|genus=Ornithogalum
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