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Desert Pancratium

Pancratium sickenbergeri

Desert Pancratium
Photo: Gideon Pisanty (Gidip), CC BY 3.0
Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
Syria to NE. Libya and Arabian Pen.
Climate
subtropical

About

Pancratium sickenbergeri is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae family. It is a Saharo-Arabian plant that grows in deserts, such as the Negev. It is native to Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. The flowers look like the Mediterranean species Pancratium maritimum, but the leaves of P. sickenbergeri are curly and the plant is much smaller. Unusually for the desert, the seeds are distributed by floodwaters when they occur in the winter.

Other Pancratium plants

Canary Sea Daffodil · Stinking Daffodil · Illyrian Star Lily · Sea-daffodil · Pancratium maximum · Pancratium parvum · Javanese Lily · Pancratium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pancratium sickenbergeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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