Echeandia

Echeandia
Echeandia sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Tribe: Anthericeae
Genus: Echeandia
Ortega
Type species
Echeandia terniflora
Synonyms

Hesperanthes (Baker) S.Watson

Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.

Etymology

It is named for Spanish botanist Pedro Gregorio Echeandía (1746–1817). Species in the genus are distributed from the south-western United States south to north-western Argentina, southern Bolivia, and southern Peru.

Description

Echeandia are herbaceous perennials with corms and enlarged storage roots. The narrow leaves are held in basal rosettes. Flowers are arranged in loose racemes and may be yellow, orange, white or cream.

Species

There are about 78 to 90 species in the genus.

  1. Echeandia albiflora (Cham. & Schltdl.) M.Martens & Galeotti - Veracruz
  2. Echeandia altipratensis Cruden - Guatemala
  3. Echeandia atoyacana Cruden - México State, Guerrero
  4. Echeandia attenuata Cruden - Sinaloa, Durango
  5. Echeandia bolivarensis Cruden - Venezuela (Bolívar)
  6. Echeandia breedlovei Cruden - Oaxaca, Chiapas
  7. Echeandia campechiana Cruden - Campeche, Yucatán
  8. Echeandia chandleri (Greenm. & C.H.Thomp.) M.C.Johnst. – Chandler's Craglily - Tamaulipas, Texas
  9. Echeandia chiapensis Cruden - Oaxaca, Chiapas
  10. Echeandia ciliata (Kunth) Cruden - Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina
  11. Echeandia coalcomanensis Cruden - Michoácan
  12. Echeandia confertiflora Cruden - Oaxaca
  13. Echeandia conzattii Cruden - Guerrero, Oaxaca
  14. Echeandia denticulata Cruden - Colombia, Venezuela
  15. Echeandia drepanoides (Greenm.) Cruden - Oaxaca
  16. Echeandia durangensis (Greenm.) Cruden - Mexico
  17. Echeandia echeandioides (Schltdl.) Cruden - Mexico
  18. Echeandia elegans Cruden - Morelos, Guerrero
  19. Echeandia falcata Cruden - Guanajuato, Querétaro
  20. Echeandia flavescens (Schult. & Schult.f.) Cruden - Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
  21. Echeandia flexuosa Greenm. - central + southern Mexico
  22. Echeandia formosa (Weath.) Cruden - Central America, Chiapas
  23. Echeandia gentryi Cruden - Mexico
  24. Echeandia gracilis Cruden - central Mexico
  25. Echeandia grandiflora Cruden - Oaxaca
  26. Echeandia hallbergii Cruden - Oaxaca
  27. Echeandia herrerae (Killip) Cruden - Peru
  28. Echeandia hintonii Cruden - Guerrero
  29. Echeandia hirticaulis Cruden - México State, Guerrero, Michoacán
  30. Echeandia imbricata Cruden - Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan
  31. Echeandia lehmannii (Baker) Marais & Reilly - Ecuador
  32. Echeandia leucantha Klotzsch - Central America, Venezuela
  33. Echeandia llanicola Cruden - Oaxaca
  34. Echeandia longifolia (Weath.) Cruden - Veracruz, Oaxaca, Venezuela
  35. Echeandia longipedicellata Cruden - Mexico, Guatemala
  36. Echeandia luteola Cruden - Belize, Yucatán Peninsula
  37. Echeandia macrophylla Rose ex Weath. - San Luis Potosí
  38. Echeandia magnifica López-Ferr. - Guerrero
  39. Echeandia matudae Cruden - El Salvador, Guatemala, Chiapas
  40. Echeandia mcvaughii Cruden - Jalisco, Nayarit
  41. Echeandia mexiae Cruden - Morelos, Guerrero
  42. Echeandia mexicana Cruden - Mexico
  43. Echeandia michoacensis (Poelln.) Cruden - Michoacán
  44. Echeandia mirandae Cruden - Puebla, Oaxaca
  45. Echeandia molinae Cruden - Guatemala
  46. Echeandia montealbanensis Cruden - Oaxaca
  47. Echeandia nana (Baker) Cruden - Mexico
  48. Echeandia nayaritensis Cruden - Sinaloa, Nayarit
  49. Echeandia oaxacana Cruden - Oaxaca
  50. Echeandia occidentalis Cruden - Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit
  51. Echeandia palmeri Cruden - Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora
  52. Echeandia paniculata Rose - central + southern Mexico
  53. Echeandia parva Cruden - Puebla, Oaxaca
  54. Echeandia parvicapsulata Cruden - Jalisco, Nayarit
  55. Echeandia parviflora Baker - Mexico, Guatemala
  56. Echeandia petenensis Cruden - Belize, Guatemala
  57. Echeandia pihuamensis Cruden - Jalisco
  58. Echeandia pittieri Cruden - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
  59. Echeandia platyphylla (Greenm.) Cruden - Puebla
  60. Echeandia pseudopetiolata Cruden - Guerrero
  61. Echeandia pseudoreflexa Cruden - Chiapas
  62. Echeandia ramosissima (C.Presl) Cruden - Mexico
  63. Echeandia reflexa (Cav.) Rose – Reflexed - Texas, Mexico, Honduras
  64. Echeandia robusta Cruden - Jalisco, Michoacan
  65. Echeandia sanmiguelensis Cruden - Guanajuato
  66. Echeandia scabrella (Benth.) Cruden - Mexico
  67. Echeandia sinaloensis Cruden - Sinaloa, Jalisco
  68. Echeandia skinneri (Baker) Cruden - Central America, Chiapas
  69. Echeandia smithii Cruden - Oaxaca
  70. Echeandia tamaulipensis Cruden - Tamaulipas
  71. Echeandia taxacana Cruden - Mexico
  72. Echeandia tenuifolia Cruden - Oaxaca
  73. Echeandia tenuis (Weath.) Cruden - Guerrero
  74. Echeandia texensis Cruden – Texas Craglily - Texas
  75. Echeandia udipratensis Cruden - Jalisco
  76. Echeandia vaginata Cruden - Oaxaca
  77. Echeandia venusta Woodson - Panama
  78. Echeandia vestita (Baker) Cruden - Mexico, Guatemala
  79. Echeandia weberbaueri (Poelln.) Cruden - Peru
  80. Echeandia williamsii Cruden - Guatemala, Honduras

References

  1. ↑ Ortega, Casimiro Gómez de 1800. Novarum, aut Rariorum Plantarum Horti Reg. Botan. Matrit. Descriptionum Decades 135
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ "Genus: Echeandia Ortega". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-01-19. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  4. ↑ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Agavoideae
  5. 1 2 Cruden, Robert W. "Echeandia Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 135, plate 18. 1800". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
  6. ↑ Bryan, John E. (2002), Bulbs (2nd ed.), Timber Press, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-88192-529-6, retrieved 2011-06-21
  7. ↑ Giraldo, D. (2015). "Novedades taxonómicas Y corológicas en Echeandia (Asparagaceae)". Caldasia (in Spanish). 37 (1): 61. doi:10.15446/caldasia.v37n1.50816.
  8. ↑ "Echeandia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  9. ↑ "GRIN Species Records of Echeandia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2011-04-24.

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