''Conanthera'' is a genus of small

bulbous plants Bulb or Bulbs may refer to: Common uses * Bulb, a food-storage structure within some plants ** Ornamental bulb, a kind of perennial plant * Light bulb, an electric lamp Maritime * Bulb keel, a type of keel * Bulbous bow, a part that sticks ou ...

with small

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

s of blue, purple or white and purple flowers. Propagation is by offsets or seed. All species are native to

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

, but there is an old 18th-Century report of ''C. bifolia'' occurring in colonial

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specimen collected some time between 1778 and 1788, type of ''C. bifolia'' cited by Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1802. Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus 3: 68, ''Conanthera'' as well. This could possibly be attributed to changes in boundaries between the two countries, as modern sources list the species as

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

. ;Species # '' Conanthera bifolia'' Ruiz & Pav. - from Valparaíso to La Araucanía # '' Conanthera campanulata'' Lindl. - from Antofagasta to La Araucanía # '' Conanthera parvula'' (Phil.) Muñoz-Schick - from Valparaíso to La Araucanía # '' Conanthera trimaculata'' (D.Don) F.Meigen - central Chile # '' Conanthera urceolata'' Ravenna - Atacama

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External links

pacificbulbsociety.org
Asparagales genera Flora of Chile {{Asparagales-stub