Leaves, up to 8, strap like, length 45 cm. height 60 cm. Flowers, four trumpet shaped. Tubes short, green-white with spreading lobes, crimson stripes, and wavy crimson margins.[6]
‘The present is the fifth unrecorded Amaryllis from the Brazils which has been published in this work out of the collection of Mr. Griffin. To have been the first to bring within the sphere of science and into culture an equal number of plants, belonging to a same remote region, of a same genus, and all interesting, either on the score of curiosity or beauty, within little more than two years, has probably never before been the chance of any single collector in Europe. The bulb was sent about 3 years ago by Mr. E. Woodford, from Rio Janeiro; and flowered in Mr. Griffin's hothouse at South Lambeth in March last.’ Ker Gawler[2]
Heterotypic Synonyms
Amaryllis illustris Vell., Fl. Flumin. 3: 131 (1829).
^Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London 3: t. 199. 1817
