genus
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perennial
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herbaceous
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials.
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bulbous plants
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in the family
Iridaceae
Iridaceae () is a family of plants in order Asparagales, taking its name from the Iris (plant), irises. It has a nearly global distribution, with 69 accepted genera with a total of about 2500 species. It includes a number of economically importan ...
native to
Mexico
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South America
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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families /ref> The plants in the genus are small with tunicated bulbs. The flowers are light blue, violet, white, or yellow, depending on the species, of which there are around twenty. Taxonomists considered that the already known genera ''Salpingostylis'' (endemic from Florida), ''Cardiostigma'' (from Mexico), ''Catila'' (from Brazil) and ''Itysa'' (from Venezuela) are not enough different from each other to justify their taxonomic segregation and, for this reason, all of them are now included in ''Calydorea''.
The genus name is derived from the
Greek
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words ''caly'', meaning "sheathed", and ''dorea'', meaning "spear". ''C. xiphioides'' lends its common name, tahay, to the exoplanet
Gliese 367 b
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Uruguay
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* ''Calydorea amabilis'' (Ravenna) Goldblatt & Henrich, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 511 (1991). Southern Brazil to North Eastern Argentina. (Syn.: ''Catila amabilis'' Ravenna)
* ''Calydorea approximata'' R.C.Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. 155: 46 (1945). Bolivia to North Eastern Argentina.
* ''Calydorea azurea'' Klatt, Abh. Naturf. Ges. Halle 15: 387 (1882). Bolivia to Uruguay.
* ''Calydorea basaltica'' Ravenna, Onira 10: 40 (2005). Brazil (Paraná (state), Paraná).
* ''Calydorea bifida'' Ravenna, Onira 9: 23 (2003). Chile (Maule Region, Maule).
* ''Calydorea campestris'' (Klatt) Baker, J. Bot. 14: 187 (1876). Brazil to Bolivia.
* ''Calydorea chilensis'' Muñoz-Schick, Gayana, Bot. 60: 104 (2003). Chile (Maule).
* ''Calydorea cipuroides'' Klatt, Abh. Naturf. Ges. Halle 15: 387 (1882). Colombia to Venezuela.
* ''Calydorea crocoides'' Ravenna, Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 10: 311 (1965). South Eastern and Southern Brazil.
* ''Calydorea gardneri'' Baker, J. Bot. 14: 188 (1876). Brazil (Piauí, Mato Grosso).
* ''Calydorea longipes'' Ravenna, Onira 10: 41 (2005). Brazil (Paraná).
* ''Calydorea longispatha'' (Herb.) Baker, J. Bot. 14: 188 (1876). Central and South Western Mexico.
* ''Calydorea luteola'' (Klatt) Baker, J. Bot. 14: 188 (1876). S. Brazil.
* ''Calydorea mexicana'' (R.C.Foster) Goldblatt & Henrich, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 510 (1991). Mexico (Mexico State).
* ''Calydorea minima'' Roitman & J.A.Castillo, Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 42: 321 (2007). Paraguay to Argentina (Corrientes Province).
* ''Calydorea nuda'' (Herb.) Baker, J. Bot. 14: 188 (1876). Uruguay.
* ''Calydorea pallens'' Griseb., Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24: 324 (1879). Northern Argentina.
* ''Calydorea undulata'' Ravenna, Onira 6: 14 (2001). Argentina (Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba).
* ''Calydorea venezolensis'' (Ravenna) Goldblatt & Henrich, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 511 (1991). Venezuela. (syn.: ''Itysa venezolensis'' Ravenna)
* ''Calydorea xiphioides'' (Poepp.) Espinosa, Revista Chilena Hist. Nat. 26: 18 (1922). Central Chile.
References
Bibliography
* Goldblatt, P. & J.E. Henrich. 1991. ''Calydorea'' Herbert (Iridaceae-Tigridieae): Notes on this New World genus and reduction to synonymy of ''Salpingostylis'', ''Cardiostigma'', ''Itysa'' and ''Catila''. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 78: 504-511
* Muñoz-Schick, M. Tres nuevas Monocotiledóneas descubiertas en Chile: ''Alstroemeria mollensis'' M.Muñoz et A.Brinck (Alstroemeriaceae), ''Miersia chilensis'' var. ''bicolor'' M.Muñoz (Gilliesiaceae) y ''Calydorea chilensis'' M.Muñoz (Iridaceae) Gayana Bot., 2003, vol.60, no.2, p.101-106. * Roitman, G. & Castillo, A. ''Calydorea alba'' (Iridaceae, Tigrideae), a new species from Uruguay. Boletín Sociedad Argentina Botánica. 40 (3-4) 2005.
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Iridaceae genera
Iridaceae
Taxa named by William Herbert (botanist)