{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Conanthera campanulata (8467139250).jpg | image_caption = ''Conanthera campanulata'' | taxon = Conanthera | authority = Ruiz & Pav.<ref name=trop1>{{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40013064 |title=Name - ''Conanthera'' Ruiz & Pav. |quote=T: ''Conanthera bifolia'' Ruiz & Pav. |work=Tropicos |publisher=MBG |accessdate=February 7, 2012}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=kwc/> | synonyms = ''Cummingia'' <small>D.Don</small> | type_species = ''Conanthera bifolia''<ref name=trop1/> | type_species_authority = Ruiz & Pav. }}

'''''Conanthera''''' is a genus of small bulbous plants with small panicles of blue, purple or white and purple flowers. Propagation is by offsets or seed. All species are native to Chile, but there is an old 18th-Century report of ''C.&nbsp;bifolia'' occurring in colonial Peru<ref>specimen collected some time between 1778 and 1788, type of ''C.&nbsp;bifolia'' cited by Ruiz López, Hipólito & Pavón, José Antonio. 1802. Florae Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus 3: 68, ''Conanthera''</ref> as well. This could possibly be attributed to changes in boundaries between the two countries, as modern sources list the species as endemic to Chile.<ref name=kwc/><ref name=trop2>{{ cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/1200275?tab=distribution |title=Name - ''Conanthera bifolia'' Ruiz & Pav. distribution |work=Tropicos |publisher=MBG |accessdate=February 7, 2012}}</ref>

;Species<ref name=kwc>{{ cite web |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/ |title=Search for ''Conanthera'' |work=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |year=2012 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |accessdate=February 7, 2012}}</ref>

# ''Conanthera bifolia'' <small>Ruiz & Pav.</small> - from Valparaíso to La Araucanía # ''Conanthera campanulata'' <small>Lindl.</small> - from Antofagasta to La Araucanía # ''Conanthera parvula'' <small>(Phil.) Muñoz-Schick</small> - from Valparaíso to La Araucanía # ''Conanthera trimaculata'' <small>(D.Don) F.Meigen</small> - central Chile # ''Conanthera urceolata'' <small>Ravenna</small> - Atacama

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Conanthera pacificbulbsociety.org]

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Category:Asparagales genera Category:Flora of Chile Category:Tecophilaeaceae Category:Taxa named by José Antonio Pavón Jiménez Category:Taxa named by Hipólito Ruiz López

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