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Gelasine

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Gelasine is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described in 1840. The entire group is endemic to South America.^[1]^[2]

The genus name is derived from the Greek word gelasinus, meaning "dimple".^[3]

Gelasine caldensis Ravenna - Minas Gerais
Gelasine coerulea (Vell.) Ravenna - Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina
Gelasine elongata (Graham) Ravenna - southern Brazil, Urubual, northeastern Argentina
Gelasine gigantea Ravenna - central Brazil
Gelasine paranaensis Ravenna - Paraná State in southern Brazil
Gelasine rigida Ravenna - Minas Gerais
Gelasine uruguaiensis Ravenna - Uruguay

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^ ^a ^b ^c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Ravenna, P. (1984). The delimitation of Gelasine (Iridaceae), and G. uruguaiensis sp. nov. from Uruguay. Nordic Journal of Botany 4(3), 347-50.
^ Manning, John; Goldblatt, Peter (2008). The Iris Family: Natural History & Classification. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. pp. 242–43. ISBN 978-0-88192-897-6.

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Gelasine is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, first described in 1840. The entire group is endemic to South America.

The genus name is derived from the Greek word gelasinus, meaning "dimple".

Species Gelasine caldensis Ravenna - Minas Gerais Gelasine coerulea (Vell.) Ravenna - Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina Gelasine elongata (Graham) Ravenna - southern Brazil, Urubual, northeastern Argentina Gelasine gigantea Ravenna - central Brazil Gelasine paranaensis Ravenna - Paraná State in southern Brazil Gelasine rigida Ravenna - Minas Gerais Gelasine uruguaiensis Ravenna - Uruguay