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|accepted_name=Crinum
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 291. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 141. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=String-lily;swamp-lily
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Crinum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Crinum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek krinon, a lily
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 55, 279
|treatment_page=page 278
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, scapose, from bulbs with elongate columnar apices. <b>Leaves</b> basal, thick; blade lorate or ensiform, not narrowed near base. <b>Scape</b> solid. <b>Inflorescences</b> umbellate, few- to many-flowered, subtended by 2 large, lanceolate, scarious bracts. <b>Flowers</b> sessile or pedicellate; perianth connate proximally, red to white, often striped, streaked, or overlaid with red abaxially, funnelform to salverform to semicampanulate, tube straight to curved, ca. same length as limb lobes; stamens inserted on perianth tube throat; filaments thin, often declinate; ovary inferior, globose; style slender; stigma capitate. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, globose or subglobose, usually prominently beaked. <b>Seeds</b> fleshy, testa often corky.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical and warm regions worldwide;mostly in Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 100 (4 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=moldenke1962a
|text=Moldenke, H. N. 1962. Amaryllid genera and species. Pl. Life 18: 48–50.
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|id=wunderlin1985a
|text=Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, and D. W. Hall. 1985. The vascular flora of central Florida: Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes, additional taxa. Sida 11: 232–244.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers sessile or nearly so.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers distinctly pedicellate.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Perianth white.
|[[Crinum americanum|Crinum americanum]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Perianth purplish red, particularly abaxially.
|[[Crinum zeylanicum|Crinum zeylanicum]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Perianth pink to red; leaves 3–5 cm wide; umbels 8–13-flowered.
|[[Crinum bulbispermum|Crinum bulbispermum]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Perianth white; leaves 7.5–12 cm wide; umbels 20–100-flowered.
|[[Crinum asiaticum|Crinum asiaticum]]
|}
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name=Crinum
|author=Walter C. Holmes
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|illustrator=Kimberly J. Martin
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Tropical and warm regions worldwide;mostly in Africa.
|reference=moldenke1962a;wunderlin1985a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
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|genus=Crinum
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