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Hymenocallis speciosa (L.f. ex Salisb.) Salisb.

Green-Tinge Spiderlily

No habitat climate 5 photographs Bulb, tuber or caudex

Every figure on this page is derived from public data by a stated rule and says its source; nothing here is written by a person or a model, except the Wikipedia passage, which is quoted and marked as such. How it is made.

Summary

Hymenocallis speciosa, the green-tinge spiderlily, is a species of the genus Hymenocallis that is native to the Windward Islands in the eastern Caribbean. It is cultivated as an ornamental in some areas, and reportedly naturalized in Cuba and the Bahamas.

Text from Wikipedia, “Hymenocallis speciosa”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Hymenocallis

Hymenocallis (US) or (UK) is a genus of flowering plants in the Amaryllidaceae family native to the Americas.

Text from Wikipedia, “Hymenocallis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Amaryllidaceae
Described by
(L.f. ex Salisb.) Salisb.
Native to
Windward Is.
Wild records
3 in range· 2 open

Also known as Hymenocallis erosa Salisb.; Hymenocallis speciosa subsp. angustifolia Herb.; Hymenocallis speciosa subsp. humilis Herb.; Hymenocallis speciosa subsp. longipetiolata Herb.; Hymenocallis speciosa var. angustifolia Herb. and 6 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex by Amaryllidaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWindward Is.· introduced: Bahamas, Cuba
Kew's description“bulbous geophyte” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker14.655, -61.019 · in the densest population, 3 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 52 km away. 88 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km and stays on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 3 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (2); 葉子, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Hymenocallis speciosa, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Effect of Temperature of Flowering on Hymenocallis speciosa Salisb.
Genjiro Mori, Hideo Imanishi, Yoshihiro Sakanishi (1991) · Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
QUANTIFYING THE MOST SUITABLE IRRIGATION REGIME FOR HYMENOCALLIS SPECIOSA SALISB. PLANT GROWN IN DIFFERENT POTTING MEDIA, UNDER OPEN NURSERY CONDITION
Emam Nofal, Mohamed El-Tarawy, Ali Nabih, Hanan Abd El-Ghany (2014) · Scientific Journal of Flowers and Ornamental Plants /Scientific Journal of Flowers and Ornamental Plants
Effect of plant growth regulators on growth and flowering of spider lily (Hymenocallis speciosa L.).
A. B. Parmar, H. C. Patel, J. C. Chavda, J. R. Parmar (2009) · THE ASIAN JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE
In vitro micropropagation of spider lily, Hymenocallis speciosa L.
Y. Mohamed Yasseen (2002) · Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences
Effect of plant growth regulators on growth, flower yield and quality of spider lily (Hymenocallis speciosa L.).
A. B. Parmar, H. C. Patel, J. C. Chavda, J. R. Parmar (2009) · THE ASIAN JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Other Hymenocallis 1 in the reference

History & registers

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gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate nothing to report
wikidata answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
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commons nothing to reportcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive); that build: carried from build of 2026-09-19 (rederive)
gbif.media answered
openalex answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19; this build: skipped

Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.