{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Latace serenense imported from iNaturalist photo 231748032 on 19 October 2023.jpg | image_caption = ''Latace serenense'' | image2 = Latace andina imported from iNaturalist photo 58068704 on 19 October 2023.jpg | image2_caption = ''Latace andina'' | taxon = Latace | authority = Phil. (1889) | type_species = ''Latace andina'' | type_species_authority = (Poepp.) Sassone | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''Latace andina'' {{small|(Poepp.) Sassone}} *''Latace serenense'' {{small|(Ravenna) Sassone}} | subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>{{Cite web |title=''Latace'' Phil. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:294734-2 |access-date=20 August 2024|website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> |synonyms = ''Zoellnerallium'' {{small|Crosa (1975)}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''Latace''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. It includes two species of bulbous geophytes native to northern and central Chile and northwestern Argentina.<ref name = powo/> *''Latace andina'' {{small|(Poepp.) Sassone}} *''Latace serenense'' {{small|(Ravenna) Sassone}}
==Taxonomy== The genus was first described by Rodolfo Amando Philippi in 1889.<ref name = powo/> ''Zoellnerallium'' is a synonym.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sassone |first=Agostina Belen |last2=Belgrano |first2=Manuel J. |last3=Guaglianone |first3=Encarnación Rosa |date=2015-12-24 |title=The reinstatement of Latace Phil. (Amaryllidaceae, Allioideae) |url=https://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.239.3.6 |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=239 |issue=3 |pages=253 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.239.3.6 |issn=1179-3163|hdl=11336/19736 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref name = powo/>
The genus is included in the tribe Gilliesieae, within the subfamily Allioideae.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Crosa|first1=O|title=''Zoellnerallium'', un género nuevo para la tribu Allieae (Liliaceae)|journal=Darwiniana|date=1975|volume=19|pages=331–334|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Crosa|first1=O|title=Segunda especie y justificación del género ''Zoellnerallium'' (Alliaceae)|journal=Darwiniana|date=2004|volume=42|issue=1–4|pages=165–168|url=http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-67932004000100007|access-date=20 January 2015|language=es}}</ref> It is considered to be part of a group of four genera within Gilliesieae, referred to as Ipheieae ''nom. nud.''. In 2014 it was proposed to create a new tribe Leucocorynae with six genera, including ''Latace'', by splitting Gilliesieae into two separate tribes.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sassone|first1=Agostina B.|last2=Arroyo-Leuenberger|first2=Silvia C.|last3=Giussani|first3=Liliana M.|title=Nueva Circunscripción de la tribu Leucocoryneae (Amaryllidaceae, Allioideae)|journal=Darwiniana |series=Nueva Serie|date=2014|volume=2|issue=2|pages=197–206|doi=10.14522/darwiniana/2014.22.584|url=http://www.ojs.darwin.edu.ar/index.php/darwiniana/article/download/584/616|access-date=9 January 2015|issn=0011-6793|ref={{harvid|Sassone et al.|2014}}|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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Category:Allioideae Category:Amaryllidaceae genera Category:Flora of southern South America Category:Taxa described in 1889 Category:Taxa named by Rodolfo Amando Philippi