Erinna (plant)
Erinna is a genus of perennial herbaceous geophytes in the flowering plant family Amaryllidaceae. 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 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" as "Leucocoryne gilliesioides" on morphological grounds, it was included separately  by Chase "et al." (2009) and hence the 2009 APGIII. 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." rather than be transferred to the new tribe, Leucocorynae, as would be the case if transferred into "Leucocoryne".