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| FNA Vol. 26 | Liliaceae  68. Bloomeria Kellogg, Proc. Calif.
Acad. Sci. 2: 11. 1863.  Golden star [for H. G. Bloomer,
1821–1874, early San Francisco botanist and one-time botanical
curator at the California Academy of Sciences]  J. Chris Pires
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from fibrous-coated corms. Leaves
1–8, basal; blade linear-lanceolate, keeled, margins entire.
Scape slender, cylindrical, rigid. Inflorescences umbellate,
open, 10–35-flowered, bracteate; bracts 2–4, scarious,
membranous, not enclosing flower buds. Flowers: tepals 6,
persistent, widely spreading, distinct or barely connate at
base, golden yellow, striped brownish or green, nearly equal,
oblong-linear, subrotate at anthesis; stamens 6, epitepalous,
slightly shorter than and inserted at base of tepals; filaments
filiform distally, dilated basally, ca. 6 mm, dilated bases
sometimes connate into nectariferous cup, cup