Griffineae

The tribe Griffineae (in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae) includes 2 genera with 22 species from South America which are actually endemic to Brazil. A typical character of the representatives of the tribe are the flowers - They are with blue or lilac color collected into an umbel. Only the members of this tribe and the genus Lycoris are able to form flowers with such color in the whole Amaryllidaceae family. The plants in this group are typical perennial flowers which are producing bulbs. The leaves are green, with elliptical form in the most of the cases but in some members as in Worsleya they are sword-shaped.

This tribe is sister to the Hippeastreae tribe and more precisely to the Hippeastrineae and Zephyranthineae subtribes as it seems from the Phylogeny of the Amaryllidaceae family.