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|accepted_name=Eremocrinum
|accepted_authority=M. E. Jones
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Zoë
|place=4: 53. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|common_names=Sand lily
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Eremocrinum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eremocrinum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek eremos, desert, and krinon, lily
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 57
|treatment_page=page 216
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form;rhizome height or length or size;rhizome orientation;root texture"><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, caulescent, glabrous, from short, vertical rhizomes with fleshy roots.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf quantity;basal leaf arrangement or pubescence;tuft position relational;sheath texture;sheath duration"><b>Leaves </b>8–12, basal, tufted, each tuft surrounded basally by fibrous, persistent sheaths;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="blade arrangement or course or shape">blade linear.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="inflorescence position or structure subtype;inflorescence arrangement;inflorescence shape;inflorescence shape;inflorescence density;inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>terminal, racemose, spikelike, elongate, dense, bracteate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="flower prominence;flower odor"><b>Flowers </b>rather showy, not obviously fragrant;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="perianth duration;perianth coloration;perianth arrangement">perianth persistent, white to greenish white, with 3 greenish to brown stripes, these confluent terminally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="tepal quantity;tepal fusion;tepal orientation;tepal shape;tepal variability">tepals 6, shortly connate proximally, spreading distally, oblong, equal;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="perianth-tube shape">perianth-tube stipelike;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen position;stamen architecture or arrangement">stamens 6, hypogynous, 1-seriate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="filament arrangement or course or shape;filament shape;filament length">filaments linear, flattened, ca. 1/2 length of tepals;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="anther fixation;anther orientation;anther dehiscence">anthers basifixed, becoming strongly incurved, introrse;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="ovary position;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form;ovule quantity">ovary superior, 3-locular, ovules few per locule;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="style shape;style shape">style filiform, elongate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape">stigma discoid;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="pedicel height or length or size;pedicel size;bract texture">pedicel short, slender, subtended by scarious bract.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit dehiscence"><b>Fruits </b>capsular, 3-lobed, globose, dehiscence loculicidal.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="seed atypical quantity;seed quantity;seed coloration;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>4–8 (–12), black, angled.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Utah and n Ariz
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Eremocrinum
|author=James L. Reveal;Frederick H. Utech
|authority=M. E. Jones
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=s Utah and n Ariz
|reference=None
|publication title=Zoë
|publication year=1893
|special status=
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|genus=Eremocrinum
|anther dehiscence=introrse
|anther fixation=basifixed
|anther orientation=incurved
|basal leaf arrangement or pubescence=tufted
|blade arrangement or course or shape=linear
|bract texture=scarious
|filament arrangement or course or shape=linear
|filament length=1/2 length of tepals
|filament shape=flattened
|flower odor=fragrant
|flower prominence=showy
|fruit architecture=capsular
|fruit dehiscence=loculicidal
|fruit shape=globose;3-lobed
|inflorescence architecture=bracteate
|inflorescence arrangement=racemose
|inflorescence density=dense
|inflorescence position or structure subtype=terminal
|inflorescence shape=elongate;spikelike
|leaf quantity=8;12
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=3-locular
|ovary position=superior
|ovule quantity=few
|pedicel height or length or size=short
|pedicel size=slender
|perianth arrangement=confluent
|perianth coloration=white;greenish white
|perianth duration=persistent
|perianth-tube shape=stipelike
|rhizome height or length or size=short
|rhizome orientation=vertical
|root texture=fleshy
|seed atypical quantity=8;12
|seed coloration=black
|seed quantity=4;8
|seed shape=angled
|sheath duration=persistent
|sheath texture=fibrous
|stamen architecture or arrangement=1-seriate
|stamen position=hypogynous
|stamen quantity=6
|stigma architecture or shape=discoid
|style shape=elongate;filiform
|tepal fusion=connate
|tepal orientation=spreading
|tepal quantity=6
|tepal shape=oblong
|tepal variability=equal
|tuft position relational=surrounded
|whole_organism architecture=caulescent
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|whole_organism pubescence=glabrous
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