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Bessera
Sign in to saveBessera is a genus of Mexican plants in the cluster lily subfamily within the asparagus family. It is a small genus of 5 known species of mostly herbaceous flowering plants with corms. They have flowers with petals and petaloid sepals (tepals) with compound pistils.
Species
PHYLUM
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 30
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Collections
- DERN-IMECBIO-CUCSUR-UDG, IBUNAM, MO, MICH, BRIT, VT
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Brodiaeoideae
- Named after
- Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser
- Image
- 34 Bessera elegans.jpg
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- Category:Bessera
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- Bessera
- taxon common name
- 罗伞韭属
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Former species
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Bessera is a genus of Mexican plants in the cluster lily subfamily within the asparagus family. It is a small genus of 5 known species of mostly herbaceous flowering plants with corms. They have flowers with petals and petaloid sepals (tepals) with compound pistils.
The genus is named for Austrian and Russian botanist Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784–1842).
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