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Genus Habranthus Family Amaryllidaceae
Common Name: Rain Lily

Description: Perennial bulbous herbs; scape hollow.

Leaves deciduous, may or may not be present when flowering; blade linear, rarely exceeding 2 cm wide, smooth.

Inflorescence umbellate, 1[rarely to 4]-flowered; spathe tubular towards base; flowers declinate [to suberect], slightly zygomorphic; perianth connate proximally, funnel-shaped to trumpet-shaped, shortly tubular basally; tepals subequal; filaments inserted on tepals distal to perianth tube, fasciculate in sets of 4 different lengths, declinate and recurving distally, filiform; anthers dorsifixed, usually parallel with floral axis, linear-oblong; stigma 3-fid.

Capsule 3-locular, thin-walled, subglobose or ovoid; seeds numerous, dark brown to black, flat, D-shaped, obliquely winged.


Distribution and occurrence: About 30 species from southern North America to South America; several species cultivated as ornamentals in Australia, 3 of these occasionally naturalised.

Text by KL Wilson (Aug 2013) based on FNA (2002); edited KL Wilson (Dec 2014)
Taxon concept: RO Flagg, GL Smith and WS Flory, Flora North America vol. 26 (2002)

 Key to the species 
1Flowers pinkHabranthus brachyandrus
Flowers bright yellow to orange-yellowHabranthus tubispathus

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