Calydorea


Calydorea is a small genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the family Iridaceae native to Mexico and South America. The plants in the genus are small with tunicated bulbs. The flowers are light blue, violet, white, or yellow, depending on the species, of which there are around twenty. Taxonomists considered that the already known genera Salpingostylis, Cardiostigma , Catila and Itysa are not enough different from each other to justify their taxonomic segregation and, for this reason, all of them are now included in Calydorea.
The genus name is derived from the Greek words caly, meaning "sheathed", and dorea, meaning "spear". C. xiphioides lends its common name, tahay, to the exoplanet Gliese 367 b.

Species

The following species are accepted by Plants of the World Online.
  • Calydorea alba Roitman & A.Castillo, Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 40: 311. Uruguay.
  • Calydorea amabilis Goldblatt & Henrich, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 511. Southern Brazil to North Eastern Argentina.
  • Calydorea approximata R.C.Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. 155: 46. Bolivia to North Eastern Argentina.
  • Calydorea azurea Klatt, Abh. Naturf. Ges. Halle 15: 387. Bolivia to Uruguay.
  • Calydorea basaltica Ravenna, Onira 10: 40. Brazil.
  • Calydorea bifida Ravenna, Onira 9: 23. Chile.
  • Calydorea campestris Baker, J. Bot. 14: 187. Brazil to Bolivia.
  • Calydorea charruana Deble Balduinia 40: 2. Brazil to Uruguay.
  • Calydorea cipuroides Klatt, Abh. Naturf. Ges. Halle 15: 387. Colombia to Venezuela.
  • Calydorea crocoides Ravenna, Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 10: 311. South Eastern and Southern Brazil.
  • Calydorea gardneri Baker, J. Bot. 14: 188. Brazil.
  • Calydorea longipes Ravenna, Onira 10: 41. Brazil.
  • Calydorea luteola Baker, J. Bot. 14: 188. S. Brazil.
  • Calydorea minima Roitman & J.A.Castillo, Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 42: 321. Paraguay to Argentina.
  • Calydorea minuana Deble & F.S.Alves Phytotaxa 253: 82. Uruguay.
  • Calydorea nuda Baker, J. Bot. 14: 188. Uruguay.
  • Calydorea pallens Griseb., Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24: 324. Northern Argentina.
  • Calydorea riograndensis Deble Bonplandia 20: 36. Brazil.
  • Calydorea undulata Ravenna, Onira 6: 14. Argentina.
  • Calydorea venezolensis Goldblatt & Henrich, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 511. Venezuela.
  • Calydorea xiphioides Espinosa, Revista Chilena Hist. Nat. 26: 18. Central Chile.

    Former species

Species formerly included in Calydorea but now recognized as better placed in other genera include the following.
  • Calydorea chilensis Muñoz-Schick, Gayana, Bot. 60: 104. Chile. Synonym of Romulea rosea var. rosea.
  • Calydorea longispatha Baker, J. Bot. 14: 188. Central and South Western Mexico. Synonym of Tigridia longispatha.
  • Calydorea mexicana Goldblatt & Henrich, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 510. Mexico. Synonym of Tigridia fosteri.