by Nathaniel Lord Britton & Addison Brown, An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States… (1913)
“ An erect perennial herb with slender rootstocks, fibrous roots, erect sparingly leafy stems, the leaves narrowly linear and mostly basal, and numerous small yellowish flowers in a terminal woolly cymose panicle. ”
by Nathaniel Lord Britton & Addison Brown, An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States… (1913)
“ Type species: Hymenocallis littoralis Salisb.5.0 5. Mánfreda Salisb. Gen. Pl. Fragm. 78. 1866. Fleshy herbs with bulbiferous rootstocks and bracted scapes, the leaves basal, and large bracted flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. Perianth tubular or funnelform, withering-persistent, of 6 erect or spreading equal or nearly equal lobes, united below into a tube. Stamens inserted on the perianth, exserted; filaments flattened or filiform; anthers versatile. Ovary 3-celled, style slender, exserted, 3-lobed; ovules numerous, in 2 rows in each cavity of the ovary. ”
