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Stenomesson aurantiacum ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America ( Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on n ...

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Stenomesson moldenkei ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nr ...

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Stenomesson parvulum ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nr ...

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Stenomesson pauciflorum ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nr ...

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Stenomesson rupense ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based o ...

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Stenomesson tubiflorum ''Stenomesson tubiflorum'' is a species of plant which is endemic to Peru. ''S. tubiflorum'', which was scientifically named in 1985 as ''Eucrosia tubiflora'', is known only from the type collection in the Marañón basin, an area which had not ...

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Stenomesson vitellinum ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nr ...

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Stenomesson weberbaueri ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nr ...

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Clinanthus ''Clinanthus'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, found in western South America, from Ecuador to north west Argentina. Species include: *'' Clinanthus callacallensis'' (Ravenna) Meerow *'' Clinanthus campodensis'' (Rav ...

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Eucrosia ''Eucrosia'' is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulb, bulbous plants in the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae) distributed from Ecuador to Peru. The name is derived from the Greek , beautiful, and , a fringe, referr ...

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Urceolina ''Urceolina'' is a genus of South American plants in the amaryllis family, all native to Peru. It also occurs in other parts of South America. Species *''Urceolina ayacucensis'' Ravenna *''Urceolina cuzcoensis'' Vargas *''Urceolina fulva'' H ...

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References

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