Amana Honda 1935
Creators: name: Wang, Meizhen
name: Wang, Ziyi
name: Zhang, Shenglu
name: Wu, Jing
name: Li, Pan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Liliales
Liliaceae
Amana

description: Key to the genus Amana
1. Bracts usually two, opposite...............................................................................................................................................................2
- Bracts usually three, verticillate, or not verticillate (in this case reduced).........................................................................................3
2. Lower leaves linear; flowers 1–5; anthers yellow at maturity (before releasing pollen) ............................................... Amana edulis
- Lower leaves oblanceolate; flower mostly solitary, sometimes two; anthers purple at maturity (before releasing pollen)................. .............................................................................................................................................................................. Amana nanyueensis
3. Bracts usually not verticillate, reduced, 1.0–5.0 mm long .................................................................................... Amana wanzhensis
- Bracts verticillate, not reduced, longer than 12.0 mm........................................................................................................................4
4. Lower leaves linear, or linear to oblanceolate in the same population, always with a broad white band along the upper surface of midvein...............................................................................................................................................................................................5
- Lower leaves oblong or oblanceolate, sometimes with white veins or midvein, but not a broad white band ...................................6
5. Leaves green, linear, not oblanceolate................................................................................................................................................7
- Leaves green or brownish green to purple, linear to oblanceolate, 1–2 cm wide; purple-red streaks on the back of outer tepals ...... ..................................................................................................................................................................................... Amana latifolia
6. Anthers purple at maturity (before releasing pollen) .........................................................................................................................8
- Anthers yellow at maturity (before releasing pollen).........................................................................................................................9
7. Length of lower leaf less than 25 cm; purple-red on the back of outer tepals, with no obvious streaks............. Amana baohuaensis
- Length of lower leaf greater than 25 cm; purple-red stripes on the back of outer tepals.................................. Amana yunmengensis
8. Leaves green, with several white veins; bulb tunic sparsely villous inside ........................................................... Amana anhuiensis
- Leaves green, dark-green or purplish green, without white veins; bulb tunic glabrous inside ..................... Amana kuocangshanica
9. Leaves oblong; bulb tunic densely villous-woolly inside ................................................................................ Amana erythronioides
- Leaves oblanceolate; bulb tunic glabrous or sparsely villous inside................................................................................................10
10. Flowers pink, solitary ............................................................................................................................................. Amana hejiaqingii
- Flowers white, mostly solitary, sometimes two.................................................................................................... Amana tianmuensis
description: Published as part of Wang, Meizhen, Wang, Ziyi, Zhang, Shenglu, Wu, Jing & Li, Pan, 2023, Amana yunmengensis (Liliaceae), a new species from the Yunmeng Lakes region, China, pp. 13-34 in Phytotaxa 629 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.629.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10254739