Echeandia is a genus of flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the family

Family (biology)

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 Asparagaceae

Asparagaceae

Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.In earlier classification systems, the species involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae...

, subfamily Agavoideae. It is named for Spanish botanist Pedro Gregorio Echeandía (1746–1817). Species in the genus are distributed from the Southwestern United States

Southwestern United States

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 south to Northwestern Argentina

Argentina

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, Southern Bolivia

Bolivia

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, and Southern Peru

Peru

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. They are herbaceous

Herbaceous plant

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 perennials

Perennial plant

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 with corm

Corm

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s and enlarged storage roots. The narrow leaves are held in basal rosettes. Flowers are in loose raceme

Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne...

s and may be yellow, orange, white or cream.

Selected species

• Echeandia chandleri (Greenm. & C.H.Thomp.) M.C.Johnst. – Chandler's Craglily
• Echeandia flavescens (Schult.
  Josef August Schultes
  Josef August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Father of Julius Hermann...
  
   & Schult.f.
  Julius Hermann Schultes
  Julius Hermann Schultes was an Austrian botanist in Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes.-Notes:...
  
  ) Cruden – Torrey's Craglily
• Echeandia paniculata Rose
  Joseph Nelson Rose
  Joseph Nelson Rose was an American botanist. He was born in Union County, Indiana. His father died serving during the Civil War when Joseph Rose was a young boy. He later graduated from high school in Liberty, Indiana....
  
  
• Echeandia reflexa (Cav.
  Antonio José Cavanilles
  Antonio José Cavanilles was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. He named many plants, particularly from Oceania, his name is abbreviated as Cav...
  
  ) Rose – Reflexed Craglily
• Echeandia texensis Cruden – Texas Craglily

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