Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.[4]

Echeandia
Echeandia sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Agavoideae
Genus: Echeandia
Ortega[1]
Type species
Echeandia terniflora
Synonyms[2][3]

Hesperanthes (Baker) S.Watson

Etymology

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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

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Echeandia are herbaceous perennials with corms and enlarged storage roots. The narrow leaves are held in basal rosettes. Flowers are arranged in loose racemes[6] and may be yellow, orange, white or cream.[5]

Species

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There are about 78 to 90 species in the genus.[7][2][8][9]

  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

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  1. ^ Ortega, Casimiro Gómez de 1800. Novarum, aut Rariorum Plantarum Horti Reg. Botan. Matrit. Descriptionum Decades 135
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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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