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Stenomesson aurantiacum ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nr ...

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Stenomesson breviflorum ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nr ...

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Stenomesson campanulatum ''Stenomesson'' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nr ...

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Stenomesson chloranthum ''Stenomesson chloranthum'' is a species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is endemic to Peru. Alan Meerow and Henk van der Werff the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after its green (Lati ...

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References

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