Family: Amaryllidaceae
Family description:
Glabrous, bulbous, scapose (rarely more or less acaulescent), perrenial herbs. Leaves all basal, linear to lorate or oblanceolate, often distichous. Flowers in an umbel (somtimes reduced to a single flower), subtended by a spathe of 1 or more usually scarious valves. Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or slightly zygomorphic. Perianth of 6 petaloid segments, arising from the apex of the ovary, or from e hypanthial tube. Corona sometimes present. Stamens 6. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; stigma capitate or shortly 3-lobed. Fruit a loculicidal or irregulary dhiscent capsule, sometimes with flessy pericarp and transitional to a berry