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River Crinum Lily
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River Crinum Lily
ative Photo: Ravinder Singh
Common name: River Crinum Lily, Poison bulb • Assamese: জলকুঁৱৰী Jalkuworee, পানী নহৰু Pani nohoru • Bengali: সুখদর্শন Sukhdarshan • Gujarati: ગવરીકંદ Gavarikand, નાગરીકંદ Nagarikand • Kannada: ಕಾಡುಈರುಳ್ಳಿ Kaadu eerulli, ಮಂಜಿನ ನಾರು Manjina naru, ಮಂಜೀವಾರು Manjivaru, ವಿಷಮುಂಗುಲಿ Vishamunguli • Konkani: ಕಿರಟಿಮಾರಿ Kiratimari • Malayalam: വെളുത്തപോളതാളി Veluttapolatali • Marathi: कुंबया Kumbaya, प्लायकंद Playakand • Odia: ଢିଙ୍କିଆ ଦଳ Dhinkiadala, କୁଣ୍ଡେଇ kandei • Sanskrit: कन्दली Kandali, सामान्य सुदर्शन Samanya sudarshana, सुदर्शनति Sudarshanati • Tamil: விஷமூங்கில் Visa-munkil • Telugu: కాజగడ్డ Kajagadda, కేసరచెట్టు Kesarchettu • Tulu: ಇಸಮುಂಗಿಲಿ Isamungili Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Crinum defixum    Family: Amaryllidaceae (Nargis family)
Synonyms: Crinum viviparum var. ensifolium, Crinum ensifolium, Crinum roxburghii
River Crinum Lily is a Very stout aquatic bulbous herb. Leaves are 30-80 x 2-3 cm, linear or linear-lanceshaped, concave, smooth, entire, blunt. Flowering stems are 35-50 cm long, usually shorter than the leaves, compressed, smooth; spathe 2-leaved, bracteoles thread-like. Flowers are borne in umbels which are usually 6-15 flowered. Flowers are large, shortly stalked, white, tube cylindric, 6.0-7.5 cm long, petals 6, linear, nearly as long as the tube. Stamens are 6, adnate to the throat of the perianth tube, spreading, recurved; filaments white or pink, shorter than the petals; anthers oblong, brown, versatile. Style is erect, protruding; stigma simple. Fruit is a capsule, ellipsoid, about 2.5 cm long, 1-2 seeded. River Crinum Lily is found in swampy river banks in the Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China. Flowering: May-August.
Identification credit: Tabish, Varun Sharma Photographed in Jaipur, Rajasthan & Maharashtra.
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