Omphalissa

Omphalissa
Hippeastrum cybister
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Amaryllidoideae
Genus:	Hippeastrum
Subgenus:	Omphalissa (Salisb.) Baker
Species
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Omphalissa is an unacceptedsubgenus of genus Hippeastrum, within the Amaryllidaceae family. Originally described by Richard Anthony Salisbury in 1866.

Robust habit, two to four large flowers. Perianth with a short tube(< 4 cm), paraperigonium curved closing the throat by a distinct neck. Stigma trifid or capitate, lobes > 2 mm. Spathe slit to the base. Ribbon-like leaves, 2.5 to 5 cm broad. Many dry, flat seeds.

Salisbury originally described the Omphalissa as a subgroup of the Zephyrantheae, then a tribe within the Amaryllidaceae, in which he included Amaryllis (now Hippeastrum) aulica and A. calyptrata. This was subsequently more formally defined by John Gilbert Baker in 1888, as a subgenus of Hippeastrum with six species. Baker's six species were;

Contains the epiphytic species of Hippeastrum.

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