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Echeandia (echeandia) with Attributes

Synonyms: Hesperanthes

Wikipedia Abstract

Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family. It is named for Spanish botanist Pedro Gregorio Echeandía (1746–1817). Species in the genus are distributed from the Southwestern United States south to Northwestern Argentina, Southern Bolivia, and Southern Peru. They are herbaceous perennials with corms and enlarged storage roots. The narrow leaves are held in basal rosettes. Flowers are in loose racemes and may be yellow, orange, white or cream. There are about 78 to 90 species in the genus.
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Species

Echeandia chandleri (Chandler's craglily) (Attributes)
Echeandia durangensis (Attributes)
Echeandia flavescens (Torrey's craglily) (Attributes)
Echeandia macrophylla (Attributes)
Echeandia reflexa (reflexed craglily) (Attributes)
Echeandia texensis (Texas craglily) (Attributes)

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0