The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·550934GenusPlantae553 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›monocots
  5. ›Spiderworts and Allies
  6. ›Spiderworts
  7. ›Commelinoideae
  8. ›Tradescantieae
  9. ›Spiderworts and relatives
Elasis
Plate 1 of 2. (c) jorgebrito, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by jorgebrito · via iNaturalist

Elasis

Elasis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Commelinaceae. It includes two species of subshrubs native to southern Mexico, Central America, and Ecuador.

Elasis guatemalensis (C.B.Clarke) M.Pell. – southern Mexico to Nicaragua

Continue reading on Wikipedia

2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Elasis hirsuta

speciesElasis hirsuta

Elasis guatemalensis

speciesElasis guatemalensis

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Elasis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 550934.