''Ennealophus'' is a
genus of
perennial,
herbaceous
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and
bulbous plants
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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
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in the family
Iridaceae. It consists in five species distributed from
Ecuador to Northern
Brazil and Northwest
Argentina. The genus name is derived from the
Greek words ''ennea'', meaning "nine", and ''lophus'', meaning "crest".
List of species
The species of the genus and their geographic distribution is the following:
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A detailed checklist for family Iridaceae.
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*'' Ennealophus boliviensis'' (Baker
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History
Ancient history
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) Ravenna, Notas Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. (Chile) 21: 8 (1977). Bolivia
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*'' Ennealophus euryandrus'' (Griseb.
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) Ravenna, Anales Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 6: 42 (1973). Northwest Argentina.
*'' Ennealophus fimbriatus'' Ravenna, Wrightia 7: 232 (1983). Northwest de Argentina.
*'' Ennealophus foliosus'' ( Kunth) Ravenna, Notas Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. (Chile) 21: 8 (1977). Ecuador to Perú
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and Northern Brazil.
*'' Ennealophus simplex'' (Ravenna) Roitman
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& J.A.Castillo, Darwiniana 45: 238 (2007). Northwest Argentina ( Jujuy, Tucumán). It is a synonym of ''Tucma simplex'' Ravenna.
References
Bibliography
*Chiarini, Franco E. El cariotipo de ''Ennealophus fimbriatus'' (Iridaceae). Arnaldoa, ene./dic. 2005, vol.12, no.1-2, p. 48-52. ISSN 1815-8242.
*Ravenna P. 1983. A new species and a new subgenus in ''Ennealophus'' (Iridaceae). Wrightia, 7. (3): 232-234
Iridaceae genera
Iridaceae
Taxa named by N. E. Brown
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