Echeandia
Genus of flowering plants
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Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.[4]
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| Echeandia | |
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| Echeandia sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Agavoideae |
| Tribe: | Anthericeae |
| Genus: | Echeandia Ortega[1] |
| Type species | |
| Echeandia terniflora | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
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 arranged 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]
- 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
