Ennealophus

Ennealophus is a genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the family Iridaceae. It consists in five species distributed from Ecuador to Northern Brazil and Northwest Argentina. The genus name is derived from the Greek words ennea, meaning "nine", and lophus, meaning "crest".

List of species

The species of the genus and their geographic distribution is the following:

Ennealophus boliviensis Ravenna, Notas Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 21: 8. Bolivia.
Ennealophus euryandrus Ravenna, Anales Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 6: 42. Northwest Argentina.
Ennealophus fimbriatus Ravenna, Wrightia 7: 232. Northwest de Argentina.
Ennealophus foliosus Ravenna, Notas Mens. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. 21: 8. Ecuador to Peru and Northern Brazil.
Ennealophus simplex Roitman & J.A.Castillo, Darwiniana 45: 238. Northwest Argentina. It is a synonym of Tucma simplex Ravenna.