Biology:Echeandia
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
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| Echeandia spp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Agavoideae |
| Genus: | Echeandia Ortega[1] |
| Type species | |
| Echeandia terniflora Ortega
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Hesperanthes (Baker) S.Watson | |
Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.[4]
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.[5]
Description
Echeandia are herbaceous perennials with corms and enlarged storage roots. The narrow leaves are held in basal rosettes. Flowers are in loose racemes[6] and may be yellow, orange, white or cream.[5]
Species
There are about 78 to 90 species in the genus.[7][2][8][9]
References
- ↑ Ortega, Casimiro Gómez de 1800. Novarum, aut Rariorum Plantarum Horti Reg. Botan. Matrit. Descriptionum Decades 135
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ "Genus: Echeandia Ortega". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-01-19. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4090. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
- ↑ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Agavoideae, http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/orders/asparagalesweb.htm#Agavaceae
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cruden, Robert W.. "Echeandia Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 135, plate 18. 1800". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=111191. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
- ↑ Bryan, John E. (2002), Bulbs (2nd ed.), Timber Press, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-88192-529-6, https://books.google.com/books?id=v-h4dovkqxgC, retrieved 2011-06-21
- ↑ Giraldo, D. (2015). "Novedades taxonómicas Y corológicas en Echeandia (Asparagaceae)" (in es). Caldasia 37 (1): 61. doi:10.15446/caldasia.v37n1.50816. http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0366-52322015000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es.
- ↑ "Echeandia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=500255. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
- ↑ "GRIN Species Records of Echeandia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4090. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3015531 entry
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