View source for Echeandia

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Echeandia
|accepted_authority=Ortega
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.,
|place=135, plate 18. 1800
|year=1800
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Echeandia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Echeandia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Pedro Gregorio Echeandía, 1746–1817, Spanish botanist in Zaragosa
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 57, 217
|treatment_page=page 215
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism growth form;storage root size"><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, scapose, from corms with enlarged storage roots.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf position;leaf position"><b>Leaves </b>basal and cauline;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;leaf-base texture">blade 2-faced, very narrowly linear to narrowly oblong or elliptic, base surrounded by fibrous leaf-bases from previous year.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="inflorescence arrangement;inflorescence arrangement;inflorescence atypical quantity;inflorescence quantity"><b>Inflorescences </b>racemose or paniculate, (1–) 2–4 flowers per node.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="flower reproduction;flower architecture;flower orientation"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual or pseudohermaphroditic-staminate, ± erect to pendulous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="tepal orientation;tepal fusion;tepal coloration;tepal architecture;tepal arrangement or shape;tepal variability">tepals strongly reflexed to spreading, distinct, yellow [orange, white, or cream], 3-veined, ± elliptic, equal;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 6;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="filament shape">filaments linear to clavate, bearing scales at right angles to axis of filament [scaleless];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="anther fusion;anther coloration;base fusion;base fixation">anthers connate into cone or distinct, dorsifixed near base, yellow;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="ovary position;ovary shape;ovule quantity">ovary superior, ellipsoid, ovules 8+ per locule;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="style quantity">style 1.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit dehiscence"><b>Fruits </b>capsular, broadly to narrowly oblong, dehiscence loculicidal.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>black, irregularly compressed and folded, colliculose.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="seed coloration;seed shape;seed architecture or shape;x chromosome quantity">x = 8.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=sw United States to nw Argentina;s Bolivia;and s Peru
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 80 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>More than 60 species of Echeandia occur in North America south of the United States. Two of those reach their northern distributional limits in the southwestern United States. The third species included here is known only from the southern tip of Texas.</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><div class="treatment-key">
==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Anthers connate, 4 mm or longer.
|[[Echeandia texensis|Echeandia texensis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Anthers distinct, shorter than 4 mm.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Filaments inserted in open pits; anthers versatile; most storage roots 1–2(–4) cm from corms.
|[[Echeandia flavescens|Echeandia flavescens]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Filaments inserted in covered pits; anthers not versatile, usually twisted and/or reflexed, thus appearing versatile; most storage roots 2–8 cm from corms or thickened through out.
|[[Echeandia chandleri|Echeandia chandleri]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Echeandia
|author=Robert W. Cruden
|authority=Ortega
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=sw United States to nw Argentina;s Bolivia;and s Peru
|reference=None
|publication title=Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.,
|publication year=1800
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_372.xml
|genus=Echeandia
|anther coloration=yellow
|anther fusion=connate
|base fixation=dorsifixed
|base fusion=distinct
|blade shape=very narrowly linear;narrowly oblong or elliptic
|filament shape=linear;clavate
|flower architecture=pseudohermaphroditic-staminate
|flower orientation=less erect;pendulous
|flower reproduction=bisexual
|fruit architecture=capsular
|fruit dehiscence=loculicidal
|fruit shape=oblong
|inflorescence arrangement=paniculate;racemose
|inflorescence atypical quantity=1;2
|inflorescence quantity=2;4
|leaf position=cauline;basal
|leaf-base texture=fibrous
|ovary position=superior
|ovary shape=ellipsoid
|seed architecture or shape=folded
|seed coloration=black
|seed shape=compressed
|stamen quantity=6
|storage root size=enlarged
|style quantity=1
|tepal architecture=3-veined
|tepal arrangement or shape=elliptic
|tepal coloration=yellow
|tepal fusion=distinct
|tepal orientation=strongly reflexed;spreading
|tepal variability=equal
|whole_organism architecture=scapose
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=8
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Liliaceae]]