View source for Hippeastrum puniceum

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|accepted_name=Hippeastrum puniceum
|accepted_authority=(Lamarck) Voss
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed.
|place=3, 1: 1033. 1895
|year=1895
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Amaryllis punicea
|authority=Lamarck
|publication_title=in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl.
|publication_place=1: 122. 1783
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Hippeastrum;Hippeastrum puniceum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hippeastrum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hippeastrum puniceum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 281
|treatment_page=page 283
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Bulbs </b>6–10 cm diam. <b>Leaves</b> 6–8, appearing after flowering, 50 × 3–5 cm. <b>Scape</b> to 1 m. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–4-flowered; bracts 5 cm. <b>Flowers</b> slightly zygomorphic; perianth reddish to salmon, with whitish midstripe on adaxial surface of each outer tepal, tube 3 cm; outer tepals lanceolate to subrhombic, 12 cm or more, apex acuminatenate. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid to ovoid, 2 cm. <b>Seeds</b> black, compressed-globose or -subglobose.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Disturbed sites and old gardens, spreading or persisting from cultivation
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Hippeastrum puniceum</i> is the “amaryllis” of commerce that is extensively cultivated outdoors in the southern United States and indoors elsewhere.</p>
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name=Hippeastrum puniceum
|author=
|authority=(Lamarck) Voss
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Amaryllis punicea
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Disturbed sites and old gardens, spreading or persisting from cultivation
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=La.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed.
|publication year=1895
|special status=
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|genus=Hippeastrum
|species=Hippeastrum puniceum
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