Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.[4]
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 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]
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Echeandia albiflora (Cham. & Schltdl.) M.Martens & Galeotti - Veracruz
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Echeandia altipratensis Cruden - Guatemala
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Echeandia atoyacana Cruden - México State, Guerrero
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Echeandia attenuata Cruden - Sinaloa, Durango
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Echeandia bolivarensis Cruden - Venezuela (Bolívar)
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Echeandia breedlovei Cruden - Oaxaca, Chiapas
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Echeandia campechiana Cruden - Campeche, Yucatán
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Echeandia chandleri (Greenm. & C.H.Thomp.) M.C.Johnst. – Chandler's Craglily - Tamaulipas, Texas
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Echeandia chiapensis Cruden - Oaxaca, Chiapas
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Echeandia ciliata (Kunth) Cruden - Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina
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Echeandia coalcomanensis Cruden - Michoácan
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Echeandia confertiflora Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia conzattii Cruden - Guerrero, Oaxaca
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Echeandia denticulata Cruden - Colombia, Venezuela
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Echeandia drepanoides (Greenm.) Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia durangensis (Greenm.) Cruden - Mexico
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Echeandia echeandioides (Schltdl.) Cruden - Mexico
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Echeandia elegans Cruden - Morelos, Guerrero
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Echeandia falcata Cruden - Guanajuato, Querétaro
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Echeandia flavescens (Schult. & Schult.f.) Cruden - Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
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Echeandia flexuosa Greenm. - central + southern Mexico
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Echeandia formosa (Weath.) Cruden - Central America, Chiapas
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Echeandia gentryi Cruden - Mexico
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Echeandia gracilis Cruden - central Mexico
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Echeandia grandiflora Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia hallbergii Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia herrerae (Killip) Cruden - Peru
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Echeandia hintonii Cruden - Guerrero
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Echeandia hirticaulis Cruden - México State, Guerrero, Michoacán
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Echeandia imbricata Cruden - Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan
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Echeandia lehmannii (Baker) Marais & Reilly - Ecuador
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Echeandia leucantha Klotzsch - Central America, Venezuela
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Echeandia llanicola Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia longifolia (Weath.) Cruden - Veracruz, Oaxaca, Venezuela
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Echeandia longipedicellata Cruden - Mexico, Guatemala
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Echeandia luteola Cruden - Belize, Yucatán Peninsula
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Echeandia macrophylla Rose ex Weath. - San Luis Potosí
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Echeandia magnifica López-Ferr. - Guerrero
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Echeandia matudae Cruden - El Salvador, Guatemala, Chiapas
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Echeandia mcvaughii Cruden - Jalisco, Nayarit
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Echeandia mexiae Cruden - Morelos, Guerrero
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Echeandia mexicana Cruden - Mexico
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Echeandia michoacensis (Poelln.) Cruden - Michoacán
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Echeandia mirandae Cruden - Puebla, Oaxaca
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Echeandia molinae Cruden - Guatemala
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Echeandia montealbanensis Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia nana (Baker) Cruden - Mexico
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Echeandia nayaritensis Cruden - Sinaloa, Nayarit
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Echeandia oaxacana Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia occidentalis Cruden - Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit
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Echeandia palmeri Cruden - Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora
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Echeandia paniculata Rose - central + southern Mexico
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Echeandia parva Cruden - Puebla, Oaxaca
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Echeandia parvicapsulata Cruden - Jalisco, Nayarit
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Echeandia parviflora Baker - Mexico, Guatemala
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Echeandia petenensis Cruden - Belize, Guatemala
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Echeandia pihuamensis Cruden - Jalisco
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Echeandia pittieri Cruden - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
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Echeandia platyphylla (Greenm.) Cruden - Puebla
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Echeandia pseudopetiolata Cruden - Guerrero
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Echeandia pseudoreflexa Cruden - Chiapas
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Echeandia ramosissima (C.Presl) Cruden - Mexico
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Echeandia reflexa (Cav.) Rose – Reflexed - Texas, Mexico, Honduras
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Echeandia robusta Cruden - Jalisco, Michoacan
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Echeandia sanmiguelensis Cruden - Guanajuato
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Echeandia scabrella (Benth.) Cruden - Mexico
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Echeandia sinaloensis Cruden - Sinaloa, Jalisco
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Echeandia skinneri (Baker) Cruden - Central America, Chiapas
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Echeandia smithii Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia tamaulipensis Cruden - Tamaulipas
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Echeandia taxacana Cruden - Mexico
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Echeandia tenuifolia Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia tenuis (Weath.) Cruden - Guerrero
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Echeandia texensis Cruden – Texas Craglily - Texas
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Echeandia udipratensis Cruden - Jalisco
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Echeandia vaginata Cruden - Oaxaca
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Echeandia venusta Woodson - Panama
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Echeandia vestita (Baker) Cruden - Mexico, Guatemala
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Echeandia weberbaueri (Poelln.) Cruden - Peru
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Echeandia williamsii Cruden - Guatemala, Honduras
References
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^ Ortega, Casimiro Gómez de 1800. Novarum, aut Rariorum Plantarum Horti Reg. Botan. Matrit. Descriptionum Decades 135
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^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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^ "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.
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^ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Agavoideae
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^ 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.
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^ Bryan, John E. (2002), Bulbs (2nd ed.), Timber Press, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-88192-529-6, retrieved 2011-06-21
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^ Giraldo, D. (2015). "Novedades taxonómicas Y corológicas en Echeandia (Asparagaceae)". Caldasia (in Spanish). 37 (1): 61. doi:10.15446/caldasia.v37n1.50816.
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^ "Echeandia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
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^ "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.
