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| | Flowering Plant Families, UH Botany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The Amaryllidaceae are perennial herbs from a bulb with contractile roots, comprising 50 genera and 870 species. |
 | | The leaves are alternate and more or less basal, simple, usually linear or lorate, flat, entire, parallel-veined, sheathing at base; stipules absent. |
 | | Zephyranthes candida, fairy lily, rain lily, white zephyr lily. |
| www.botany.hawaii.edu /faculty/carr/phylo_amaryllid.htm (258 words) |
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