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| Distribution | A genus of about 75 species of tropical and subtropical America.
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Habit
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Perennial herbs from bulbs.
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Leaves
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Leaves linear to lanceolate.
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Flowers
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Flowers perfect, slightly zygomorphic, nodding, 1-10 in terminal umbels on hollow, leafless scapes, each one subtended by a spathe; perianth connate into a short or long tube, with a corona of small scales between the filaments; stamens 6, inserted just below top of perianth tube, unequal, of 4 different lengths; ovary inferior; stigma 3-lobed.
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Fruit
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Fruit a globose or ellipsoid, loculicidal capsule.
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Seeds
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Seeds few to numerous, black, disk-shaped and winged or subglobose and ± angular.
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