''Latace'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the family

Amaryllidaceae The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus '' Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryl ...

. It includes two species of bulbous

geophyte A storage organ is a part of a plant specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or water. Storage organs often grow underground, where they are better protected from attack by herbivores. Plants that have ...

s native to northern and central Chile and northwestern Argentina. *'' Latace andina'' *'' Latace serenense''

Taxonomy

The genus was first described by

Rodolfo Amando Philippi Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist. Philippi contributed primarily to malacology and paleontology, but also published a major work on Diptera of C ...

in 1889. ''Zoellnerallium'' is a

synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are a ...

. The genus is included in the tribe

Gilliesieae Gilliesieae is a tribe (biology), tribe of herbaceous geophyte plants belonging to the subfamily Allioideae of the Amaryllis family (biology), family (Amaryllidaceae). Described in 1826, it contains fifteen genera and about eighty species. It ha ...

, within the subfamily

Allioideae Allioideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Alliaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, ''Allium''. ...

. It is considered to be part of a group of four genera within Gilliesieae, referred to as Ipheieae '' nom. nud.''. In 2014 it was proposed to create a new tribe Leucocorynae with six genera, including ''Latace'', by splitting Gilliesieae into two separate tribes.

References

{{Taxonbar, from= Q10316479 Allioideae Amaryllidaceae genera Flora of southern South America Taxa described in 1889 Taxa named by Rodolfo Amando Philippi