Eustephieae is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
(in the family
Amaryllidaceae, subfamily
Amaryllidoideae), where it forms part of the Andean
clade, one of two American clades.
Taxonomy
Phylogeny
This tribe was resurrected from the
Stenomesseae in 1995 by
Meerow. The placement of Eustephieae within subfamily Amaryllidoideae is shown in the following cladogram, where this tribe is shown as a
sister group to the remainder of the
tetraploid
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Andean clade.
Subdivision
Four genera:
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Eustephia''
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Chlidanthus''
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Hieronymiella''
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Pyrolirion
''Pyrolirion'', commonly known as fire lilies or flame lilies, is a small genus of herbaceous, bulb-forming South American plants in the Amaryllis family, native to Chile, Peru, and Bolivia.
Description
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Distribution
The Eustephieae for the southern limit of the Andean clade. They are found in Peru in the southern Andes, and
the northern Andes of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. This is distinct from the central Andean distribution of the remainder of the parent clade.
References
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External links
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Amaryllidoideae
Asparagales tribes