Alophia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Iridaceae
Subfamilia: Iridoideae
Tribus: Tigridieae
Genus: Alophia
Species: A. drummondii – A. intermedia – A. medusa – A. silvestris – A. veracruzana
Name

Alophia Herb., Bot. Mag. t. 3779 (1840)

Type species: Alophia drummondii (Graham) R.C. Foster Contr. Gray Herb. 155: 34. (1945) Designated as Alophia drummondiana nom. illeg.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Eustylis Engelm. & A.Gray, Boston J. Nat. Hist. 5: 236 (1847).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: America
Arkansas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil West-Central, Costa Rica, Guyana, Honduras, Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Texas

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Herbert, W. (1840) Botanical Magazine 66: , pl. 3779. BHL

Additional references

Govaerts, R.H.A. 1995. World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2). 483, 529 pp. MIM, Deurne. ISBN 90-341-0852-X (issue 1) ISBN 90-341-0853-8 (issue 2). Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Alophia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2015 Nov. 28. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Alophia. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 28 2015.
Tropicos.org 2015. Alophia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 28 Nov. 2015.

Vernacular names

Alophia is a small genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the family Iridaceae. The genus comprise five known species that occur from the South-central United States as well as in Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America.[2][3]

The genus is closely related to Herbertia, Cypella and Tigridia, differentiating from them by some characters of the stamen and the gynoecium. The genus name is derived from the Greek words a-, meaning "without", and lophos, meaning "crest".[4][5][6]

Species[7]

Alophia drummondii (Graham) R.C.Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. 155: 34 (1945). South-central United States to Mexico, Guyana and Bolivia
Alophia intermedia (Ravenna) Goldblatt, Brittonia 27: 384 (1975 publ. 1976). NW Mexico. (Sinaloa).
Alophia medusa (Baker) Goldblatt, Brittonia 27: 384 (1975 publ. 1976). Brazil (Goiás)
Alophia silvestris (Loes.) Goldblatt, Brittonia 27: 384 (1975 publ. 1976). Southern Mexico to Costa Rica
Alophia veracruzana Goldblatt & T.M.Howard, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 79: 903 (1992). Mexico (Veracruz)

References

R. K. Brummitt. 1980. Propose to conserve Alophia over Eustylis. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta, 22. Taxon, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Aug., 1980), pp. 489-493
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2008). The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. pp. 232–33. ISBN 0-88192-897-6.
Peter Goldblatt & Thad M. Howard. Notes on Alophia (Iridaceae) and a New Species, A. veracruzana, from Vera Cruz, Mexico. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 79, No. 4 (1992), pp. 901-905
Peter Goldblatt. 1975. Revision of the bulbous Iridaceae of North America. Brittonia 27: 373- 385.
Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. World Checklist of Monocotyledons: Alophia. Accessed April 16, 2009.