''Erinna'' is a
genus of
perennial herbaceous
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials.
Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous"
The fourth edition of t ...
geophytes in the
flowering plant family
Amaryllidaceae
The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus ''Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryllis fa ...
. It is native to Chile,
South America. It is included in the tribe Gilliesieae, within the subfamily
Allioideae. The genus is
monotypic, with a single species, ''Erinna gilliesioides''. It is relatively rare.
Taxonomy
''Erinna '' was described by
Philippi
Philippi (; grc-gre, Φίλιπποι, ''Philippoi'') was a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name was Crenides ( grc-gre, Κρηνῖδες, ''Krenides'' "Fountains") after its establishment by Thasian colon ...
in 1864 as a
monotypic genus, based on ''Erinna gilliesioides''. As such it was a genus within
Alliaceae, and included in the phylogenetic construction of
Gilliesieae in 1996. Although Ravenna (2000) proposed transferring it to ''
Leucocoryne
''Leucocoryne'' (glory-of-the-sun) is a genus of bulbous perennials in the family Amaryllidaceae. The foliage of all species is long and narrow and has an onion-like scent. The blue, white or lilac flowers are held in umbels.
The entire genus is ...
'' as ''Leucocoryne gilliesioides'' on morphological grounds, it was included separately by Chase ''et al.'' (2009) and hence the 2009
APGIII
The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Published in 2009, it was superseded in 2016 by a fu ...
. Although the ''World Checklist'' lists ''Erinna'' as a synonym of ''Leucocoryne'', Sassone ''et al.'' (2014) still consider its status uncertain.
In 2014 Sassone ''et al.'' proposed dividing the Gilliesieae into two separate tribes. Under their proposal, ''Erinna'' would remain in Gilliesieae ''
s.s.
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'' rather than be transferred to the new tribe, Leucocorynae, as would be the case if transferred into ''Leucocoryne''.
References
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Erinna. The Plant List
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Amaryllidaceae genera
Allioideae
Monotypic Amaryllidaceae genera