Pancratium parvum

Pancratium parvum is a bulbous ephemeral plant found in India. Flowering season is May–June.

Rain flower
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Genus: Pancratium
Species:
P. parvum
Binomial name
Pancratium parvum
Dalzell[1]

This herb can be 30–50 cm tall, bulb 4–5 cm. Leaves 30–45 cm, linear Flowers fragrant, 3-8 in umbel on slender scape 15–25 cm long; bracts 2, 5 cm, greenish white. Filaments long; flowers opening at night. Fruits 2 cm, globose, 3 lobed. Occasionally found on cliffs in evergreen forest, semi-evergreen, moist deciduous forest. The parvum has a bulb with neck and short stamens.

References
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