Echeandia Explained

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

Species

There are about 78 to 90 species in the genus.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Echeandia Ortega, Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec. 135, plate 18. 1800 . Robert W. . Cruden . Flora of North America . eFloras.org . 2011-06-24.
2. Giraldo . D. . 2015 . Novedades taxonómicas Y corológicas en Echeandia (Asparagaceae) . Caldasia . 37 . 1 . 61 . 10.15446/caldasia.v37n1.50816 . es . free .
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=305120 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. Web site: GRIN Species Records of Echeandia . Germplasm Resources Information Network . United States Department of Agriculture . 2011-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115127/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4090 . 2015-09-24 . dead .