Petronymphe

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon = Petronymphe |authority = H.E.Moore<ref name=wcspf>{{Citation |work=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Petronymphe |access-date=2011-05-26 |title=Search for ''Petronymphe''}}</ref> |range_map = Nearctic-Mexico Southwest MXS.svg |range_map_caption = ''Petronymphe'' is endemic to Southwest Mexico<ref name = "POWO" /> }}

'''''Petronymphe''''' is a genus of flowering plants endemic to Mexico. It is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Brodiaeoideae.<ref>{{Citation |last=Chase |first=M.W. |last2=Reveal |first2=J.L. |last3=Fay |first3=M.F. |year=2009 |title=A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=132–136 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x|name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Taxonomy== ===Publication=== It was published by Harold Emery Moore in 1951.<ref name = "POWO">{{cite POWO |id=295196-2 |title=''Petronymphe'' H.E.Moore |access-date=18 June 2024}}</ref> ===Species=== It consists of two species:<ref name = "POWO" /> *''Petronymphe decora'' H.E.Moore *''Petronymphe rara'' J.Gut.

==Distribution== ''Petronymphe rara'' is endemic to the Mexican state of Oaxaca, and ''Petronymphe decora'' is endemic to Guerrero.<ref name = "Gutierrez et al., 2016">Gutierrez, J., Terrazas, T., & Solano, E. (2016). ''Petronymphe rara'' a new species of Oaxaca, Mexico and the rediscovery of ''P. decora'' (Asparagaceae: Brodiaeoideae). Phytotaxa, 269(2), 113-119.</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Brodiaeoideae Category:Flora of Guerrero Category:Endemic flora of Mexico