Pasithea caerulea
Pasithea is a genus of herbs in the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Hemerocallidoideae, first described as a genus in 1832. It contains only one known species, Pasithea caerulea, native to Peru and Chile in South America. Pasithea and Excremis are the only genera in the family Asphodelaceae that are native to South America and P. caerulea is the only species in the family that is native to Chile, where it is distributed between the Antofagasta and Los Lagos regions.
| Pasithea caerulea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asphodelaceae |
| Subfamily: | Hemerocallidoideae |
| Genus: | Pasithea D.Don |
| Species: | P. caerulea |
| Binomial name | |
| Pasithea caerulea (Ruiz & Pav.) D.Don | |
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