Echeandia sp.
date: label: Collection Date
content: 21 Sep 2001
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 79 - Mexico Southwest
label: Collector
content: Jonathan D. Amith
label: Collector
content: Geoff Hall
label: Collector
content: E. Domínguez
label: Min. Elevation
content: 510
notes: label: Notes
content: GRH: according to Rzedowski & Rzedowski 2001, p. 1233, the basal leaves of E. flavescens are 1-5 mm wide, whereas 0059 has leaves 20-40mm wide. There are at least 5 different Echeandia species listed for the bosque tropical caducifolio of Eduardo Neri, but E. flavescens is not one of them, being restricted to oak forest at higher altitudes. According to Robert Cruden from photos, the leaves are way too broad to be E. flavescens, and the latter does not occur in Guerrero (but see 2003 article on Eduardo Neri). Indeed the specimens might show it to be a recently described species that RC had forgotten to describe himself from collections south of Chilpancingo made a long time ago. Note that J. Jiménez et al. list for E. Neri: E. echeandiodes, E. flavescens, E. gracilis, E. leucantha, E. mexicana, E. parviflora, E. pittieri, E. reflexa, E. skinneri. Of these R. Cruden notes: "About the species you listed, E. leucantha occurs from Venezuela north to Nicaraguañ E. pitteri is endemic to Panama and Colombia; E. skinneri may occur in central Oax. but its range is primarily Chis. to Costa Rica. E. reflexa is a species of eastern Mexico from northern Oaxaca, and adjacent Puebla and VC [sic] north to NL and Tamps. E. gracilis is a very slender, usually small species of high elevations in Mor., DF., Mex., and Pue.; I have encountered no specimens of E. mexicana from Guerrero, it is primarily a species of the Transvolcanic region from Jal. east to Mex. and Pue. Just a guess but the speicimens ID´d as flavescens, if the anthers are connate is probably E. taxcana. E. echeandioides is a plant of the pine-oak zone in Mich., Mor., and Oax.; the material IDs as echeandioides is probably E. michoacensis. There are a number of collections of it from center and north central Guerrero.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Agustín Oapan, Barranca de Amoloncan, a 3 km aproximadamente de San Agustín Oapan rumbo a San Juan Tetelcingo., Tepecoacuilco de Trujano, Guerrero, Mexico, North America - Neotropics
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content: Flowering plants and ferns
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content: Amith Ethnobotany Project
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Echeandia sp.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Monocotyledonae Asparagales Asparagaceae Agavoideae