Leptochiton (plant)

Leptochiton is a genus of South American plants in the Amaryllis family.[2][3]

Leptochiton
Leptochiton quitoensis[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Amaryllidoideae
Tribe: Hymenocallideae
Genus: Leptochiton
Sealy
Type species
Leptochiton quitoensis

There are 2 known species, native to Ecuador and Peru:[4]

  • Leptochiton helianthus (Ravenna) Gereau & Meerow - Peru (Cajamarca)
  • Leptochiton quitoensis (Herb.) Sealy - Ecuador (Guayas, Loja), Peru

References
  1. illustration from Baker, John Gilbert. 1878. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 104: plate 6397, as Ismene tenuifolia
  2. Sealy, Joseph Robert. 1937. Botanical Magazine 160: plate 9491
  3. Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. (eds.) 2014. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744.
  4. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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