Liliaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Liliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Scapose or leafy-stemmed herbs from bulbs or eorrns, or rarely with rootstocks or a woody caudex (Yucca), the leaves vari'ous. Flowers solitary or clustered, regular, mostly perfect. Perianth parted into 6 distinct or nearly distinct segments, or these more or less united into a tube inferior or partly superior (Aletris). Stamens 6, hypogynous or borne on the perianth or at the bases of its segments; anthers 2-eelled, mostly introrse, sometimes extrorse. Ovary 3-celled; ovules few or numerous in each cavity, anatropous or amphitropous; styles united; stigma 3-lobed or capitate. Fruit a usually loculicidal capsule, or in Yucca sometimes fleshy and indehiseent. Seeds various, winged or -wingless. Embryo in copious endosperm. About 125 genera and 1300 species, widely distributed. Cavities of the fruit each 1-seeded. 1. Aloe.