{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = 68 Stenomesson miniatum.jpg | image_caption = ''Stenomesson miniatum''<ref>1839 illustration from Edwards's Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London 25: t. 68 (1839). As ''Pentlandia miniata'' var. ''sulivanica''</ref> | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Stenomesson | authority =Herb. | synonyms_ref = <ref name=POWO_330467-2/> | synonyms = {{Genus list | Chrysiphiala | Ker Gawl. | Pentlandia | Herb. | Pucara | Ravenna | Sphaerotele | C.Presl }} | type_species = ''Stenomesson flavum'' | type_species_authority = (Ruiz & Pav.) Herb.<ref name = "IPNI">''Stenomesson'' Herb. (n.d.). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved March 1, 2025, from https://www.ipni.org/n/330467-2</ref> }}
'''''Stenomesson''''' is a genus of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. All the species are native to western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile).<ref name=theplantlist>{{cite web|title=''Stenomesson''|work=The Plant List|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Amaryllidaceae/Stenomesson|access-date=9 June 2013}}</ref><ref>León, B., J. Roque, C. Ulloa Ulloa, N. C. A. Pitman, P. M. Jørgensen & A. Cano E. 2006 [2007]. El Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Perú. Revista Peruana de Biología 13(núm. 2 especial): 1s–971s.</ref><ref>Ravenna, P. 1971. Contributions to South American Amaryllidaceae IV. Plant Life 27: 61–89.</ref><ref>Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i–xl, 1–1286</ref><ref>Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. (eds.) 2014. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Bolivia, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744.</ref><ref>Meerow, Alan W. 2000. Phylogeny of the American Amaryllidaceae based on nrDNA ITS sequences Systematic Botany 25(4):708-726</ref>
==Taxonomy== It was published by William Herbert in 1821.<ref name=POWO_330467-2/> The lectotype species ''Stenomesson flavum'' {{au|(Ruiz & Pav.) Herb.}} was designated by Hamilton Paul Traub in 1963.<ref name = "IPNI" /> ===Etymology=== The generic name ''Stenomesson'' references the floral morphology. It is composed of the Greek words ''stenos'', meaning narrow, and ''meso'', meaning "in the middle".<ref name = "Weber & Wilkin, 2007">Weber, O., & Wilkin, P. (2007). 588. ''STENOMESSON PEARCEI'': Amaryllidaceae. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 24(2), 114-120.</ref> ===Species=== {{As of|2023|August}}, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:<ref name="POWO_330467-2">{{cite web |title=''Stenomesson'' Herb. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:330467-2 |access-date=2023-08-02 }}</ref> *''Stenomesson aurantiacum'' <small>(Kunth) Herb.</small> - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru *''Stenomesson breviflorum'' <small>Herb.</small> - Peru (Junín, Lima) *''Stenomesson campanulatum'' <small>Alan Meerow</small> - Peru (Cajamarca, La Libertad) *''Stenomesson chilense'' <small>Ravenna</small> - Chile (Tarapacá) *''Stenomesson chloranthum'' <small>Meerow & van der Werff</small> - Peru (Amazonas) *''Stenomesson ecuadorense'' <small>Meerow, Oleas & L.Jost</small> *''Stenomesson flavum'' <small>(Ruiz & Pav.) Herb.</small> - Peru (Cajamarca, Lima, La Libertad, Pasco) *''Stenomesson gasteroides'' <small>Ravenna</small> - Peru *''Stenomesson korsakoffii'' <small>(Traub) Meerow</small> – Peru<ref name=Meer20/> *''Stenomesson leucanthum'' <small>(Ravenna) Meerow & van der Werff</small> - Peru (Cajamarca, La Libertad) *''Stenomesson miniatum'' <small>(Herb.) Ravenna</small> - Peru (Cajamarca, Apurimac, Cusco), Bolivia (La Paz) *''Stenomesson moldenkei'' <small>Traub</small> - Peru (Lima) *''Stenomesson parvulum'' <small>Ravenna</small> - Peru (Cajamarca]) *''Stenomesson pauciflorum'' <small>(Lindl. ex Hook.) Herb.</small> - Peru (Lima) *''Stenomesson pearcei'' <small>Baker</small> - Peru (Junín, Puno, Cusco), Bolivia (La Paz) *''Stenomesson rupense'' <small>Ravenna</small> - Peru *''Stenomesson tubiflorum'' <small>(Meerow) Meerow - Peru</small> *''Stenomesson vitellinum'' <small>Lindl.</small> - Peru (Lima) *''Stenomesson weberbaueri'' <small>(Vargas) Ravenna</small> - Peru (Cajamarca])
;Formerly included<ref name=w>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=288041 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> Numerous names have been coined using the name ''Stenomesson'' referring to species now regarded as better suited to other genera (''Clinanthus'', ''Eucrosia'', ''Ismene'' and ''Urceolina''). {{Columns-list|colwidth=30em| * ''Stenomesson acaule - Clinanthus humilis'' * ''Stenomesson acutum - Clinanthus incarnatus'' * ''Stenomesson callacallense - Clinanthus callacallensis'' * ''Stenomesson campodense - Clinanthus campodensis'' * ''Stenomesson caracense - Clinanthus caracensis'' * ''Stenomesson chihuanhuayu - Clinanthus chihuanhuayu'' * ''Stenomesson coccineum - Clinanthus coccineus'' * ''Stenomesson croceum - Clinanthus croceus'' * ''Stenomesson cuzcoense - Urceolina cuzcoensis'' * ''Stenomesson discolor - Clinanthus recurvatus'' * ''Stenomesson elwesii - Clinanthus elwesii'' * ''Stenomesson ferreyrae - Clinanthus recurvatus'' * ''Stenomesson flammidum - Clinanthus flammidus'' * ''Stenomesson fulvum - Clinanthus fulvus'' * ''Stenomesson glareosum - Clinanthus glareosus'' * ''Stenomesson humile - Clinanthus humilis'' * ''Stenomesson imasumacc - Clinanthus imasumacc'' * ''Stenomesson incarnatum - Clinanthus incarnatus'' * ''Stenomesson incarum - Clinanthus incarum'' * ''Stenomesson longifolium - Clinanthus recurvatus'' * ''Stenomesson luteum - Clinanthus luteus'' * ''Stenomesson macleanicum - Clinanthus macleanicus'' * ''Stenomesson microstephium - Clinanthus microstephium'' * ''Stenomesson mirabile - Clinanthus mirabilis'' * ''Stenomesson morrisonii - Ismene morrisonii'' * ''Stenomesson obragillensis - Clinanthus recurvatus'' * ''Stenomesson recurvatum - Clinanthus recurvatus'' * ''Stenomesson rubrum - Clinanthus coccineus'' * ''Stenomesson ruizianum - Clinanthus croceus'' * ''Stenomesson splendens - Clinanthus incarnatus'' * ''Stenomesson stricklandii - Eucrosia stricklandii'' * ''Stenomesson sunchubambae - Clinanthus sunchubambae'' * ''Stenomesson trichromum - Clinanthus incarnatus'' * ''Stenomesson variegatum - Clinanthus variegatus'' * ''Stenomesson viridiflorum - Clinanthus viridiflorus'' }}
== References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Meer20>{{Cite journal |last1=Meerow |first1=Alan W. |last2=Gardner |first2=Elliot M. |last3=Nakamura |first3=Kyoko |date=2020 |title=Phylogenomics of the Andean Tetraploid Clade of the American Amaryllidaceae (Subfamily Amaryllidoideae): Unlocking a Polyploid Generic Radiation Abetted by Continental Geodynamics |journal=Frontiers in Plant Science |volume=11 |article-number=582422 |doi=10.3389/fpls.2020.582422 |pmid=33250911 |pmc=7674842 |issn=1664-462X |doi-access=free }}</ref> }}
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Category:Stenomesson Category:Flora of Southern America Category:Amaryllidaceae genera Category:Taxa named by William Herbert (botanist) Category:Taxa described in 1821