# Echeandia

Echeandia (common name craglily) is a genus of New World plants in the century plant subfamily within the asparagus family.

## Etymology

It is named for Spanish botanist Pedro Gregorio Echeandía (1746–1817). Species in the genus are distributed from the south-western United States south to north-western Argentina, southern Bolivia, and southern Peru.

## Description

Echeandia are herbaceous perennials with corms and enlarged storage roots. The narrow leaves are held in basal rosettes. Flowers are arranged in loose racemes and may be yellow, orange, white or cream.

## Species

There are about 78 to 90 species in the genus.
* Echeandia albiflora (Cham. & Schltdl.) M.Martens & Galeotti - Veracruz
* Echeandia altipratensis Cruden - Guatemala
* Echeandia atoyacana Cruden - México State, Guerrero
* Echeandia attenuata Cruden - Sinaloa, Durango
* Echeandia bolivarensis Cruden - Venezuela (Bolívar)
* Echeandia breedlovei Cruden - Oaxaca, Chiapas
* Echeandia campechiana Cruden - Campeche, Yucatán
* Echeandia chandleri (Greenm. & C.H.Thomp.) M.C.Johnst. – Chandler's Craglily - Tamaulipas, Texas
* Echeandia chiapensis Cruden - Oaxaca, Chiapas
* Echeandia ciliata (Kunth) Cruden - Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina
* Echeandia coalcomanensis Cruden - Michoácan
* Echeandia confertiflora Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia conzattii Cruden - Guerrero, Oaxaca
* Echeandia denticulata Cruden - Colombia, Venezuela
* Echeandia drepanoides (Greenm.) Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia durangensis (Greenm.) Cruden - Mexico
* Echeandia echeandioides (Schltdl.) Cruden - Mexico
* Echeandia elegans Cruden - Morelos, Guerrero
* Echeandia falcata Cruden - Guanajuato, Querétaro
* Echeandia flavescens (Schult. & Schult.f.) Cruden - Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
* Echeandia flexuosa Greenm. - central + southern Mexico
* Echeandia formosa (Weath.) Cruden - Central America, Chiapas
* Echeandia gentryi Cruden - Mexico
* Echeandia gracilis Cruden - central Mexico
* Echeandia grandiflora Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia hallbergii Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia herrerae (Killip) Cruden - Peru
* Echeandia hintonii Cruden - Guerrero
* Echeandia hirticaulis Cruden - México State, Guerrero, Michoacán
* Echeandia imbricata Cruden - Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan
* Echeandia lehmannii (Baker) Marais & Reilly - Ecuador
* Echeandia leucantha Klotzsch - Central America, Venezuela
* Echeandia llanicola Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia longifolia (Weath.) Cruden - Veracruz, Oaxaca, Venezuela
* Echeandia longipedicellata Cruden - Mexico, Guatemala
* Echeandia luteola Cruden - Belize, Yucatán Peninsula
* Echeandia macrophylla Rose ex Weath. - San Luis Potosí
* Echeandia magnifica López-Ferr. - Guerrero
* Echeandia matudae Cruden - El Salvador, Guatemala, Chiapas
* Echeandia mcvaughii Cruden - Jalisco, Nayarit
* Echeandia mexiae Cruden - Morelos, Guerrero
* Echeandia mexicana Cruden - Mexico
* Echeandia michoacensis (Poelln.) Cruden - Michoacán
* Echeandia mirandae Cruden - Puebla, Oaxaca
* Echeandia molinae Cruden - Guatemala
* Echeandia montealbanensis Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia nana (Baker) Cruden - Mexico
* Echeandia nayaritensis Cruden - Sinaloa, Nayarit
* Echeandia oaxacana Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia occidentalis Cruden - Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit
* Echeandia palmeri Cruden - Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora
* Echeandia paniculata Rose - central + southern Mexico
* Echeandia parva Cruden - Puebla, Oaxaca
* Echeandia parvicapsulata Cruden - Jalisco, Nayarit
* Echeandia parviflora Baker - Mexico, Guatemala
* Echeandia petenensis Cruden - Belize, Guatemala
* Echeandia pihuamensis Cruden - Jalisco
* Echeandia pittieri Cruden - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
* Echeandia platyphylla (Greenm.) Cruden - Puebla
* Echeandia pseudopetiolata Cruden - Guerrero
* Echeandia pseudoreflexa Cruden - Chiapas
* Echeandia ramosissima (C.Presl) Cruden - Mexico
* Echeandia reflexa (Cav.) Rose – Reflexed - Texas, Mexico, Honduras
* Echeandia robusta Cruden - Jalisco, Michoacan
* Echeandia sanmiguelensis Cruden - Guanajuato
* Echeandia scabrella (Benth.) Cruden - Mexico
* Echeandia sinaloensis Cruden - Sinaloa, Jalisco
* Echeandia skinneri (Baker) Cruden - Central America, Chiapas
* Echeandia smithii Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia tamaulipensis Cruden - Tamaulipas
* Echeandia taxacana Cruden - Mexico
* Echeandia tenuifolia Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia tenuis (Weath.) Cruden - Guerrero
* Echeandia texensis Cruden – Texas Craglily - Texas
* Echeandia udipratensis Cruden - Jalisco
* Echeandia vaginata Cruden - Oaxaca
* Echeandia venusta Woodson - Panama
* Echeandia vestita (Baker) Cruden - Mexico, Guatemala
* Echeandia weberbaueri (Poelln.) Cruden - Peru
* Echeandia williamsii Cruden - Guatemala, Honduras