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|accepted_name=Androstephium
|accepted_authority=Torrey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|place=2(1): 218. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|common_names=Funnel-lily
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Androstephium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Androstephium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek andros, stamen, and stephanos, crown, alluding to the apical appendages of the united filaments
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 53, 55, 329, 332, 334, 335
|treatment_page=page 333
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, scapose, from fibrous-coated corms. <b>Leaves</b> several, basal; blade linear, channeled. <b>Scape</b> solitary, cylindrical. <b>Inflorescences</b> umbellate, terminal, bracteate; bracts 3, lanceolate. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth 6-tepaled, distinctly connate proximally into tube, tube funnelform, slightly less to ca. 1/2 overall length of tepals; tepals similar; stamens 6, epitepalous; filaments erect, dilated their entire length, conate into a nectariferous tube with erect, 2-fid apical filament appendages forming a crown between anthers; anthers basifixed, introrse; pistil 3-carpellate; ovary superior, sessile, 3-locular, ovules several; style persistent, long, slender; stigma small, 3-lobed; pedicel not articulate, ± stout. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, 3-angled, subglobose, dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> black, flat, coat with crust.</span><!--

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|distribution=w United States;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The distribution of the species in this genus is poorly documented (S. D. White et al. 1996). Recent molecular and morphological evidence suggests that <i>Androstephium</i> is closely related to <i>Muilla</i> (J. C. Pires 2000).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perianth white to light violet-purple, lobes longer than tube; scape scabrous basally; w United States.
|[[Androstephium breviflorum|Androstephium breviflorum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perianth light blue to violet-purple, lobes shorter than to ca. as long as tube; scape entirely glabrous; c United States.
|[[Androstephium coeruleum|Androstephium coeruleum]]
|}
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name=Androstephium
|author=J. Chris Pires;James. L. Reveal
|authority=Torrey
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=w United States;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication year=1859
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_674.xml
|genus=Androstephium
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