Hippeastrum correiense is a flowering perennial herbaceous bulbous plant, in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to Brazil.
Description
Large bulbs and trumpet shaped flowers.
Taxonomy
Described under its current name by Arthington Worsley in The Gardeners' Chronicle (ser. 3, 85: 377) in 1929.
Synonyms:
- Amaryllis correiensis Bury, Select. Hexandr. Pl.: 9 (1832). (Basionym)
- Amaryllis aulica var. glaucophylla Hook., Bot. Mag. 57: t. 2983 (1830).
- Hippeastrum aulicum var. glaucophyllum (Hook.) Herb., Amaryllidaceae: 136 (1837).
- Hippeastrum organense Herb., Bot. Mag. 67: t. 3803 (1840).
- Hippeastrum organense var. compressum Herb., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28(Misc.): 39 (1842).
- Amaryllis gardneri Seub. in C.F.P.von Martius et auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 3(1): 149 (1847).
- Hippeastrum gardneri (Seub.) Hoehne, Araucarilandia: 30 (1930).
- Amaryllis organensis (Herb.) Traub et Uphof, Herbertia 5: 129 (1938).
- Amaryllis organensis var. compressa (Herb.) Traub, Pl. Life 7: 35 (1951).
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