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|accepted_name=Echeandia
|accepted_authority=Ortega
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.,
|place=135, plate 18. 1800
|year=1800
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Echeandia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Echeandia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Pedro Gregorio Echeandía, 1746–1817, Spanish botanist in Zaragosa
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 57, 217
|treatment_page=page 215
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, scapose, from corms with enlarged storage roots. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; blade 2-faced, very narrowly linear to narrowly oblong or elliptic, base surrounded by fibrous leaf bases from previous year. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemose or paniculate, (1–)2–4 flowers per node. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual or pseudohermaphroditic-staminate, ± erect to pendulous; tepals strongly reflexed to spreading, distinct, yellow [orange, white, or cream], 3-veined, ± elliptic, equal; stamens 6; filaments linear to clavate, bearing scales at right angles to axis of filament [scaleless]; anthers connate into cone or distinct, dorsifixed near base, yellow; ovary superior, ellipsoid, ovules 8+ per locule; style 1. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, broadly to narrowly oblong, dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> black, irregularly compressed and folded, colliculose. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States to nw Argentina;s Bolivia;and s Peru.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 80 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>More than 60 species of <i>Echeandia</i> occur in North America south of the United States. Two of those reach their northern distributional limits in the southwestern United States. The third species included here is known only from the southern tip of Texas.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=cruden1989a
|text=Cruden, R. W. and R. McVaugh. 1989. Echeandia. In: R. McVaugh and W. R. Anderson, eds. 1974+. Flora Novo-Galiciana: A Descriptive Account of the Vascular Plants of Western Mexico. 8+ vols. Ann Arbor. Vol. 15, pp. 178–197.
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|id=cruden1994a
|text=Cruden, R. W. 1994. Echeandia. In: G. Davidse et al., eds. 1994+. Flora Mesoamericana. 2+ vols. Mexico City. Vol. 6, pp. 27–30.
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|id=cruden1999a
|text=Cruden, R. W. 1999. A new subgenus and fifteen new species of Echeandia (Anthericaceae) from Mexico and the United States. Novon 9: 325–338.
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Anthers connate, 4 mm or longer.
|[[Echeandia texensis|Echeandia texensis]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Anthers distinct, shorter than 4 mm.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Filaments inserted in open pits; anthers versatile; most storage roots 1–2(–4) cm from corms.
|[[Echeandia flavescens|Echeandia flavescens]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Filaments inserted in covered pits; anthers not versatile, usually twisted and/or reflexed, thus appearing versatile; most storage roots 2–8 cm from corms or thickened through out.
|[[Echeandia chandleri|Echeandia chandleri]]
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name=Echeandia
|author=Robert W. Cruden
|authority=Ortega
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=sw United States to nw Argentina;s Bolivia;and s Peru.
|reference=cruden1989a;cruden1994a;cruden1999a
|publication title=Nov. Pl. Descr. Dec.,
|publication year=1800
|special status=
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|genus=Echeandia
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