Hymenocallis speciosa

(L.f. ex Salisb.) Salisb. · species

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Liliopsida/Asparagales/Amaryllidaceae/Hymenocallis

At a glance

Occurrence records98

Data sources10

Biological traits11

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Hymenocallis speciosa's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation4 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility98 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗

PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype

On this page7 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources11 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS · NPASS19 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF98 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

Genome at a glanceCCDB2n = 54

01Narrative

Hymenocallis speciosa, the green-tinge spiderlily, is a species of the genus Hymenocallis that is native to the Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean. It is cultivated as an ornamental in some areas, and reportedly naturalized in Cuba and the Bahamas.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hymenocallis speciosa Hymenocallis speciosa is a bulb-forming perennial. Stipe can attain a height of up to 50 cm. Leaves are lanceolate, up to 50 cm long and 10 cm across, narrowing to a petiole below. One umbel can produce as many as 20 flowers. Flowers are white with a slight greenish tinge, the tepals reflexed (curling backwards) at flowering time.Hortipedia, Hymenocallis speciosaSalisbury, Richard Anthony. 1812. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London 1: 340, Hymenocallis speciosaSalisbury, Richard Anthony. 1794. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2: 73, t. 12. Pancratium speciosumRafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1838. Flora Telluriana 4: 22, Nemepiodon speciosum

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesWCVPGIFTTRY

Life cycle & reproduction3

Life formbulbous geophyte

Life spanperennial

Raunkiær life formcryptophyte

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment7

Aquaticterrestrial

Climateseasonally dry tropical

Climberself-supporting

Epiphyteterrestrial

Growth formherb

Mycorrhiza typePh.th.end.

Woodinessnon-woody

03Chemical composition19 compounds

Compounds documented for Hymenocallis speciosa across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile5 classes

Simple coumarins10

Amarylidaceae alkaloids2

Furocoumarins $ Simple coumarins2

Flavones1

Cyclitols1

Documented compounds19 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Amount	Source
(+)-Pancratistatin	present	LOTUS
(8-Methyl-2-oxochromen-7-yl) acetate	present	NPASS
3-Hydroxylup-20(29)-En-28-Amide	present	NPASS
6-[(6R,7S,7aS)-6-hydroxy-1-methyl-2,3,5,6,7,7a-hexahydroindol-7-yl]-2,3,4-trimethoxybenzaldehyde	present	LOTUS
7-[(2R,3R,4S,5R)-3,4-dihydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]oxy-8-methoxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS
7-hydroxy-8-[(2S,3R,4R,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS
7-hydroxy-8-[(2S,3R,4S,5R,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS
8-hydroxy-5-[(2S,3R,4S,5R,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS
8-hydroxy-7-[(2S,3R,4S,5R,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS
8-methoxy-7-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxychromen-2-one	present	NPASS

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Hymenocallis speciosa has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★ITS

fungal barcode

06Genome at a glanceCCDB

The complete instruction manual Hymenocallis speciosa carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.

Chromosomes2n = 54 n = 27

Ploidypolyploid inferred

Chromosome records46–982n range54median54mode3records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 91×CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants

CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants

2n 461×CCDB · book-fedorov

CCDB · book-fedorov — Inariyama 1937

2n 541×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Jee, G. & B. Vijayavalli. 1999. Karyomorphology of eight taxa of Hymenocallis from south India. Caryologia 52: 59–64.

2n 981×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl

CCDB · ipcn-api-dl — Flory, W. S. 1976. Distribution, chromosome numbers and types of various species and taxa of Hymenocallis. Nucleus 19: 204–227.

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · family-scale

PloiDB · family-scale — chromEvol; reliability=1.000 ↗

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type98 records

Wild obs. + sensor79

Museum / vouchered18

Cultivated / captive1

Origin

Introduced1

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO312 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy86% within 1 km

≤100 m 23≤1 km 31≤10 km 2>10 km 7

63 georeferenced · 16 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor79

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy100% within 1 km

≤1 km 2

2 georeferenced · 16 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence18

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without

Open the mapnot free-living1

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions5 of 6 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Bronx, US	9
Taipei, TW	3
Miami, US	2
Oskarshamn, SE	1
University of Stellenboschlocation not on record	1
Burlington, US	1

6 institutions · 17 of 18 vouchered records shown · 1 without an institution code

Cultivated / Captivenot free-living

A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Hymenocallis speciosa was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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