{{short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon = Proiphys |image = Cardwell Lily flower.JPG |image_caption = ''Proiphys amboinensis'' |authority = Herb.<ref name="Appendix: 42 1821">Appendix: 42 (1821).</ref><ref name=APNI>{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=PROIPHYS|title=''Proiphys'' |accessdate=2008-11-01|work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}}</ref> |synonyms_ref=<ref name="RBG"/> |synonyms = * ''Cearia'' <small>Dumort.</small> * ''Eurycles'' <small>Drapiez</small> * ''Stemonix'' <small>Raf.</small> |}}
'''''Proiphys''''' is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.<ref>{{citation |last=Stevens |first=P.F. |title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Amaryllidoideae |url=http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/orders/asparagalesweb.htm#AllAma }}</ref> It includes 5 accepted species<ref name="KEW">{{cite web |title=Proiphys Herb. : Plants of the World Online |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1602-1#children |website=Royal Botanic Garden Kew Science |accessdate=August 10, 2019}}</ref> that are native to Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and Australia.<ref name="AUS">Effie Mullins, 1989. [http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/gnp14/proiphys-genus.html The genus Proiphys]. Australian National Botanical Gardens. Accessed May 26, 2009.</ref>
;Species<ref name="RBG">Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do World Checklist of Monocotyledons: ''Proiphys '']. Accessed May 26, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://bie.ala.org.au/species/Proiphys Atlas of Living Australia, genus ''Proiphys'']</ref>
*''Proiphys alba'' <small>(R.Br.)Mabb.</small><ref name="Taxon 29: 601 1980">Taxon 29: 601 (1980).</ref> - New Guinea, Qld, NT, WA *''Proiphys amboinensis'' <small> (L.) Herb.</small><ref name="Appendix: 42 1821"/> - Thailand, Philippines, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands, Papuasia, Qld, WA; known as "Cardwell Lily"<ref name=GNP>{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=ADRIANA|title=''Adriana'' |accessdate=2008-11-01|work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}}</ref> *''Proiphys cunninghamii'' <small> (Aiton ex Lindl.) Mabb.</small><ref name="Taxon 29: 601 1980"/> - Qld, NSW; known as "Brisbane Lily" or "Moreton Bay Lily"<ref name=GNP/> *''Proiphys infundibularis'' <small> D.L.Jones & Dowe</small><ref>Austrobaileya 6: 121 (2001).</ref> - Qld *''Proiphys kimberleyensis'' <small> M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett</small><ref name="P.Kimberleyensis">{{cite web |title=Proiphys kimberleyensis M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett {{!}} Plants of the Word Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77153318-1 |website=Kew Science |accessdate=August 10, 2019}}</ref> - Northwestern Australia
==Uses== Their flowers and leaves make them desirable garden subjects, but they are not widely cultivated as ornamental plants.<ref name="AUS"/>
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Category:Amaryllidaceae genera Category:Amaryllidoideae Category:Taxa named by William Herbert (botanist)