Pancratium zeylanicum

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 moth with a very long proboscis. Flowers are white with narrow tepals and long teeth along the margin of the staminal corona.[4]

  1. ^ IPNI Publication Details
  2. ^ Rumpf, Georg Eberhard (2003). Rumphius' Orchids: Orchid Texts from the Ambonese Herbal. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300129311.
  3. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 290