Ennealophus

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Iridaceae
Subfamilia: Iridoideae
Tribus: Tigridieae
Genus: Ennealophus
Subgenus: E. subg. Actine – E. subg. Ennealophus
Name

Ennealophus N.E.Br. (1909)

Type species: E. amazonicus N.E.Br.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Eurynotia R.C.Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. 155: 6. 1945.
Type species: E. penlandii R.C.Foster
Tucma Ravenna, Anales Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 6: 42. 1973.
Type species: T. simplex Ravenna

Species overview

E. boliviensis – E. euryandrus – E. fimbriatus – E. foliosus – E. simplex
References

Brown, N.E. 1909. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1909: 361.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Ennealophus in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2013 Feb 13.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2009. Ennealophus in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2009 April 1. Reference page.

Ennealophus is a genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the family Iridaceae. It consists in five species distributed from Ecuador to Northern Brazil and Northwest Argentina. The genus name is derived from the Greek words ennea, meaning "nine", and lophus, meaning "crest".[2]
List of species

The species of the genus and their geographic distribution is the following:[3]

Ennealophus boliviensis (Baker) Ravenna, Notas Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. (Chile) 21: 8 (1977). Bolivia.
Ennealophus euryandrus (Griseb.) Ravenna, Anales Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 6: 42 (1973). Northwest Argentina.
Ennealophus fimbriatus Ravenna, Wrightia 7: 232 (1983). Northwest de Argentina.
Ennealophus foliosus (Kunth) Ravenna, Notas Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. (Chile) 21: 8 (1977). Ecuador to Perú and Northern Brazil.
Ennealophus simplex (Ravenna) Roitman & J.A.Castillo, Darwiniana 45: 238 (2007). Northwest Argentina (Jujuy, Tucumán). It is a synonym of Tucma simplex Ravenna.

References

Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1909: 361 (1909).
Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2008). The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. pp. 241–42. ISBN 0-88192-897-6.

Royal Horticultural Society, Kew. A detailed checklist for family Iridaceae.

Bibliography

Chiarini, Franco E. El cariotipo de Ennealophus fimbriatus (Iridaceae). Arnaldoa, ene./dic. 2005, vol.12, no.1-2, p. 48-52. ISSN 1815-8242.
Ravenna P. 1983. A new species and a new subgenus in Ennealophus (Iridaceae). Wrightia, 7. (3): 232-234