Alternative names: Not Applicable

Description:
Perennial herbs with a tuberous rhizome or corm; leaves mostly radical, often hairy (not in S.Aust.).

Inflorescence various but not a true umbel and without a spathe; flowers regular, bisexual; perianth coloured, with 6 free or united segments arranged in 2 rows; stamens 6, inserted at the base of the perianth, 2-celled, opening inwards; ovary inferior, 3-celled, with usually numerous ovules in each cell, arranged on the axile placentas; style short or the 3 styles separate.

Fruit a capsule or berry.

Distribution:  7 genera with about 120 species in the Americas, Africa, eastern Asia and Australia.

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: J. Black (1943) and other authors included Hypoxis in the Amaryllidaceae.

Author: Prepared by J.P. Jessop