Zephyranthes subg. Eithea#Species

{{Short description|Subgenus of flowering plants}}

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|image = Zephyranthes blumenavia (K.Koch & C.D.Bouché ex Carrière) Nic.García & Dutilh, Taxon 68- 492 (2019).jpg

|image_caption = Zephyranthes blumenavia

|taxon = Zephyranthes subg. Eithea

|authority = (Ravenna) Nic.GarcíaMissouri Botanical Garden. (n.d.-v). Zephyranthes subg. Eithea (Ravenna) Nic. García. Tropicos. Retrieved January 28, 2025, from https://www.tropicos.org/name/100496093

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|subdivision = See here

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|type_species = Zephyranthes blumenavia

|type_species_authority = (K.Koch & C.D.Bouché ex Carrière) Nic.García & Dutilh

|range_map = Brazil in the world (W3).svg

|range_map_caption = It is endemic to Brazil

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Zephyranthes subg. Eithea is a subgenus of the genus Zephyranthes endemic to Brazil.

Description

=Vegetative characteristics=

Zephyranthes subg. Eithea are 12–50 cm tall, bulbous plants with ovoid bulbs and 1–8 pseudopetiolate leaves.

=Generative characteristics=

The 1–6 pedicellate, zygomorphic, campanulate to infundibuliform flowers are produced on pseudo-umbellate inflorescences with 8–30 cm long, and 2–6 mm wide scapes.

Cytology

The chromosome count is 2n = 18.

Taxonomy

It was first published as Eithea {{au|Ravenna}} by Pedro Felix Ravenna in 2002Eithea Ravenna. (n.d.). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved January 28, 2025, from https://www.ipni.org/n/20007210-1 with Eithea blumenavia {{au|(Carrière) Ravenna}} as the type species.Missouri Botanical Garden. (n.d.-l). Eithea Ravenna. Tropicos. Retrieved January 28, 2025, from https://www.tropicos.org/name/100184394 It was included into the genus Zephyranthes {{au|Herb.}} as Zephyranthes subg. Eithea {{au|(Ravenna) Nic.García}} published by Nicolás García Berguecio in 2019.Zephyranthes subgen. Eithea (Ravenna) Nic.García. (n.d.). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved January 28, 2025, from https://www.ipni.org/n/77203263-1García, N., Meerow, A. W., Arroyo‐Leuenberger, S., Oliveira, R. S., Dutilh, J. H., Soltis, P. S., & Judd, W. S. (2019). [https://fundacionphilippi.cl/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Amaryllidaceae-tribu-Hippeastreae.pdf Generic classification of Amaryllidaceae tribe Hippeastreae.] Taxon, 68(3), 481-498.

=Species=

It has two species:

Conservation

Zephyranthes blumenavia is Endangered (EN), and Zephyranthes lagopaivae is Critically Endangered (CR).Campos-Rocha, A., Meerow, A. W., Lopes, E. F. M., Semir, J., Mayer, J. L. S., & Dutilh, J. H. A. (2017). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5624176/ Eithea lagopaivae, a new critically endangered species in the previously monotypic genus Eithea Ravenna (Amaryllidaceae).] PhytoKeys, (85), 45.

References

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Category:Plant subgenera

Category:Flora of Brazil

Category:Endemic flora of Brazil