Editing Amaryllis (section)

== Description ==
[[File:Amaryllis belladonna flowers.jpg|thumb|right|''Amaryllis belladonna'' flowers]]
''Amaryllis'' is a [[bulb]]ous plant, with each bulb being {{cvt|5–10|cm}} in diameter. It has several strap-shaped, [[Leaf#Timing|hysteranthous]], green [[leaf|leaves]] with [[Glossary of botanical terms#midrib|midrib]], {{cvt|30–50|cm}} long and {{cvt|2–3|cm}} broad, arranged in two rows.

Each bulb produces one or two leafless, stout, persistent and erect stems {{cvt|30–60|cm}} tall, each of which bears at the top a cluster of two to twelve [[Floral symmetry#zygomorphic|zygomorphic]], funnel-shaped [[flower]]s without a tube. Each flower is {{cvt|6–10|cm}} in diameter with six spreading [[tepal]]s (three outer sepals, three inner petals, with similar appearance to each other). The usual color is white with crimson veins, but pink or purple also occur naturally. [[Stamen]]s are very shortly [[connation|connate]] basally, [[Glossary of botanical terms#declinate|declinate]], unequal. [[Stigma (botany)#Style|Style]] is declinate, [[Stigma (botany)|stigma]] is three-lobed. [[Ovule]]s are approx. 8 per [[locule]]. Seeds are compressed-globose, white to pink. The number of [[chromosome]]s is 2''n'' = 22.<ref name=Meerow>{{Cite book
| last1  = Meerow
| first1 = Alan W.
| author-link1 = Alan Meerow
| last2  = Snijman
| first2 = Deirdre A.
| author-link2 = Dierdré A. Snijman
| chapter = ''Amaryllidaceae''
| editor-last  = Kubitzki
| editor-first = Klaus
| editor-link = Klaus Kubitzki
| title  = The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants
| volume = III
| pages = 83–110
| publisher = Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
| date = 1998
| isbn = 978-3-642-08377-8
| doi = 10.1007/978-3-662-03533-7
| s2cid = 30159571
}}</ref>