{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Brimeura amethystina05.jpg |image_caption = ''Brimeura amethystina'' |taxon = Brimeura |authority = Salisb.{{sfn|Salisbury|Gray|1866}}{{sfn|Goñalons|2014}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name="tlberta"/> |synonyms = *''Sarcomphalium'' <small>Dulac</small> *''Charistemma'' <small>Janka</small> |type_species = ''Brimeura amethystina'' |type_species_authority = L. }}
'''''Brimeura''''' is a genus of bulb-forming, monocotyledonous perennial plants. They have narrow leaves and bear bluebell-like flowers in Spring.{{sfn|Goñalons|2014}}<ref>{{cite book|title=RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants|year=2008|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-1405332965|pages=1136}}</ref> ''Brimeura'' is treated in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, tribe Hyacintheae, subtribe Hyacinthinae.{{sfn|Pfosser et al|2003}}{{sfn|Stevens|2017}} It contains the following species{{sfn|Goñalons|2014}}<ref name="tlberta"/>
* ''Brimeura amethystina'' <small>(L.) Chouard</small> - Pyrenees * ''Brimeura duvigneaudii'' <small>(L.Llorens) Rosselló, Mus & Mayol</small> - Mallorca * ''Brimeura fastigiata'' <small>(Viv.) Chouard</small> - Mallorca, Menorca, Corsica, Sardinia
Salisbury states that he named the genus in honour of the seventeenth century Netherlandish botanist and horticulturalist, Marie de Brimeu.{{sfn|Salisbury|Gray|1866}}{{sfn|Goñalons|2014}}
The genus is native to southeastern Europe and certain islands of the western Mediterranean.<ref name="tlberta">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=301022 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> The species ''B. amethystina'' (formerly ''Hyacinthus amethystina'') has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.<ref>{{cite web|title=RHS Plant Selector - ''Brimeura amethystina''|url= https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/2403/Brimeura-amethystina/Details | access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist|30em}}
== Bibliography == {{refbegin}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Pfosser |first1=M. |last2=Wetschnig |first2=W. |last3=Ungar |first3=S. |last4=Prenner |first4=G. |year=2003 |title=Phylogenetic relationships among genera of Massonieae (Hyacinthaceae) inferred from plastid DNA and seed morphology |journal=Journal of Plant Research |volume=116 |issue=2 |pages=115–132 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10768652|doi=10.1007/s10265-003-0076-8|ref={{harvid|Pfosser et al|2003}} |pmid=12736783|bibcode=2003JPlR..116..115P |s2cid=7554964 }} * {{cite book|last1=Salisbury|first1=Richard Anthony|last2=Gray|first2=J. E.|authorlink1=Richard Anthony Salisbury|authorlink2=John Edward Gray|title=The Genera of Plants|publisher=J. Van Voorst|date=1866|url=https://archive.org/details/generaplantsafr00saligoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/generaplantsafr00saligoog/page/n36 26]|access-date=26 October 2014|format=Unpublished fragment}} * {{cite web |last=Stevens |first=P.F. |author-link=Peter F. Stevens|date=2017|orig-year= 2001 |title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Hyacinthaceae |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden|url=https://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/APWeb/orders/acoralesweb.htm#Hyacinthaceae|access-date=22 September 2017}} (''see also'' Angiosperm Phylogeny Website) * {{cite web|title=''Brimeura''|url=http://www.floraiberica.es/eng/PHP/cientificos_.php?gen=Brimeura|website=Flora Iberica|publisher=Real Jardín Botánico|access-date=22 September 2017|date=2017}} ** {{cite book|last1= Goñalons|first1=Llorenç Sáez|editor1-last=Talavera|editor1-first=S|editor2-last=Andrés|editor2-first=C|editor3-last=Arista|editor3-first=M|editor4-last=Fernández Piedra|editor4-first=MP|editor5-last=Rico|editor5-first=E|editor6-last=Crespo|editor6-first=MB|editor7-last=Quintanar|editor7-first=A|editor8-last=Herrero|editor8-first=A|editor9-last=Aedo|editor9-first=C|title=Flora Iberica. Vol 20|date=2014|publisher=Real Jardín Botánico, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas|location=Madrid|url=http://www.floraiberica.es/floraiberica/texto/pdfs/20_183_22_Brimeura.pdf|access-date=22 September 2017|chapter=''Brimeura'' L.|language=Spanish}} {{refend}}
== External links == {{Commons}} *[http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Brimeura Pacific Bulb Society]
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Category:Scilloideae Category:Asparagaceae genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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