Echeandia

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Asparagaceae
Subfamilia: Agavoideae
Genus: Echeandia
Species: E. albiflora – E. altipratensis – E. atoyacana – E. attenuata – E. bolivarensis – E. breedlovei – E. campechiana – E. chandleri – E. chiapensis – E. ciliata – E. coalcomanensis – E. confertiflora – E. conzattii – E. drepanoides – E. durangensis – E. echeandioides – E. elegans – E. falcata – E. flavescens – E. flexuosa – E. formosa – E. gentryi – E. gracilis – E. grandiflora – E. hallbergii – E. hintonii – E. hirticaulis – E. imbricata – E. lehmannii – E. leucantha – E. llanicola – E. longifolia – E. longipedicellata – E. luteola – E. macrophylla – E. macvaughii – E. magnifica – E. matudae – E. mexiae – E. mexicana – E. michoacensis – E. mirandae – E. molinae – E. montealbanensis – E. nana – E. nayaritensis – E. oaxacana – E. occidentalis – E. palmeri – E. paniculata – E. parva – E. parvicapsulata – E. parviflora – E. petenensis – E. pihuamensis – E. pittieri – E. platyphylla – E. pseudopetiolata – E. pseudoreflexa – E. ramosissima – E. reflexa – E. robusta – E. sanmiguelensis – E. scabrella – E. sinaloensis – E. skinneri – E. smithii – E. tamaulipensis
E. taxacana – E. tenuifolia – E. tenuis – E. texensis – E. udipratensis – E. vaginata – E. venusta – E. vestita – E. williamsii
Name

Echeandia Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.: 90. 1798.
Synonyms

Heterotypic
Hesperanthes S.Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 241. 1879.

References

Ortega, C.G., 1798. Nov. Rar. Pl. Descr. Dec.: 90

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Echeandia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 09. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Echeandia. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 09 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Echeandia in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 09.
Tropicos.org 2019. Echeandia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 09.

Vernacular names

Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.[4] 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. They are herbaceous perennials with corms and enlarged storage roots.[5] The narrow leaves are held in basal rosettes. Flowers are in loose racemes[6] and may be yellow, orange, white or cream.[5]

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

Species[2][8][9]

Echeandia albiflora (Cham. & Schltdl.) M.Martens & Galeotti - Veracruz
Echeandia altipratensis Cruden - Guatemala
Echeandia atoyacana Cruden - México State, Guerrero
Echeandia attenuata Cruden - Sinaloa, Durango
Echeandia bolivarensis Cruden - Venezuela (Bolívar)
Echeandia breedlovei Cruden - Oaxaca, Chiapas
Echeandia campechiana Cruden - Campeche, Yucatán
Echeandia chandleri (Greenm. & C.H.Thomp.) M.C.Johnst. – Chandler's Craglily - Tamaulipas, Texas
Echeandia chiapensis Cruden - Oaxaca, Chiapas
Echeandia ciliata (Kunth) Cruden - Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina
Echeandia coalcomanensis Cruden - Michoácan
Echeandia confertiflora Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia conzattii Cruden - Guerrero, Oaxaca
Echeandia denticulata Cruden - Colombia, Venezuela
Echeandia drepanoides (Greenm.) Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia durangensis (Greenm.) Cruden - Mexico
Echeandia echeandioides (Schltdl.) Cruden - Mexico
Echeandia elegans Cruden - Morelos, Guerrero
Echeandia falcata Cruden - Guanajuato, Querétaro
Echeandia flavescens (Schult. & Schult.f.) Cruden - Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
Echeandia flexuosa Greenm. - central + southern Mexico
Echeandia formosa (Weath.) Cruden - Central America, Chiapas
Echeandia gentryi Cruden - Mexico
Echeandia gracilis Cruden - central Mexico
Echeandia grandiflora Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia hallbergii Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia herrerae (Killip) Cruden - Peru
Echeandia hintonii Cruden - Guerrero
Echeandia hirticaulis Cruden - México State, Guerrero, Michoacán
Echeandia imbricata Cruden - Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan
Echeandia lehmannii (Baker) Marais & Reilly - Ecuador
Echeandia leucantha Klotzsch - Central America, Venezuela
Echeandia llanicola Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia longifolia (Weath.) Cruden - Veracruz, Oaxaca, Venezuela
Echeandia longipedicellata Cruden - Mexico, Guatemala
Echeandia luteola Cruden - Belize, Yucatán Peninsula
Echeandia macrophylla Rose ex Weath. - San Luis Potosí
Echeandia magnifica López-Ferr. - Guerrero
Echeandia matudae Cruden - El Salvador, Guatemala, Chiapas
Echeandia mcvaughii Cruden - Jalisco, Nayarit
Echeandia mexiae Cruden - Morelos, Guerrero
Echeandia mexicana Cruden - Mexico
Echeandia michoacensis (Poelln.) Cruden - Michoacán
Echeandia mirandae Cruden - Puebla, Oaxaca
Echeandia molinae Cruden - Guatemala
Echeandia montealbanensis Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia nana (Baker) Cruden - Mexico
Echeandia nayaritensis Cruden - Sinaloa, Nayarit
Echeandia oaxacana Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia occidentalis Cruden - Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit
Echeandia palmeri Cruden - Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora
Echeandia paniculata Rose - central + southern Mexico
Echeandia parva Cruden - Puebla, Oaxaca
Echeandia parvicapsulata Cruden - Jalisco, Nayarit
Echeandia parviflora Baker - Mexico, Guatemala
Echeandia petenensis Cruden - Belize, Guatemala
Echeandia pihuamensis Cruden - Jalisco
Echeandia pittieri Cruden - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
Echeandia platyphylla (Greenm.) Cruden - Puebla
Echeandia pseudopetiolata Cruden - Guerrero
Echeandia pseudoreflexa Cruden - Chiapas
Echeandia ramosissima (C.Presl) Cruden - Mexico
Echeandia reflexa (Cav.) Rose – Reflexed - Texas, Mexico, Honduras
Echeandia robusta Cruden - Jalisco, Michoacan
Echeandia sanmiguelensis Cruden - Guanajuato
Echeandia scabrella (Benth.) Cruden - Mexico
Echeandia sinaloensis Cruden - Sinaloa, Jalisco
Echeandia skinneri (Baker) Cruden - Central America, Chiapas
Echeandia smithii Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia tamaulipensis Cruden - Tamaulipas
Echeandia taxacana Cruden - Mexico
Echeandia tenuifolia Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia tenuis (Weath.) Cruden - Guerrero
Echeandia texensis Cruden – Texas Craglily - Texas
Echeandia udipratensis Cruden - Jalisco
Echeandia vaginata Cruden - Oaxaca
Echeandia venusta Woodson - Panama
Echeandia vestita (Baker) Cruden - Mexico, Guatemala
Echeandia weberbaueri (Poelln.) Cruden - Peru
Echeandia williamsii Cruden - Guatemala, Honduras

References

Ortega, Casimiro Gómez de 1800. Novarum, aut Rariorum Plantarum Horti Reg. Botan. Matrit. Descriptionum Decades 135
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
"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.
Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Agavoideae
Cruden, Robert W. "Echeandia Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 135, plate 18. 1800". Flora of North America. eFloras.org. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
Bryan, John E. (2002), Bulbs (2nd ed.), Timber Press, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-88192-529-6, retrieved 2011-06-21
Giraldo, D. (2015). "Novedades taxonómicas Y corológicas en Echeandia (Asparagaceae)". Caldasia (in Spanish). 37 (1): 61.
"Echeandia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
"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.