Pancratium zeylanicum

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Pancratium zeylanicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Pancratium
Species:
P. zeylanicum
Binomial name
Pancratium zeylanicum
Floral stages over a period of 4 days. See image page for more details

Pancratium zeylanicum, commonly known as the Javanese lily[2]: 46  is a bulbous perennial herb native to Borneo, Java, the Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, and the Philippines.[3]

It is sometimes grown as a hothouse container plant. It does not have a rest period unless water is withheld. It propagates by producing offsets and seed.

The pollinator is a

tepals and long teeth along the margin of the staminal corona.[4]

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