Triuris

Triuris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Pandanales
Family:	Triuridaceae
Genus:	Triuris Miers, 1841

Triuris is a genus in the family Triuridaceae. It consists of species that are small and achlorophyllous,^[1] occurring in tropical Mexico, Guatemala, and northern South America.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

1. Triuris alata Brade - Rio de Janeiro, Yucatán Peninsula
2. Triuris brevistylis Donn.Sm. - Yucatán Peninsula, Guatemala
3. Triuris hexophthalma Maas - Guyana
4. Triuris hyalina Miers - Brazil, Suriname, Colombia, Venezuela

References

1. Barbara A. Ambrose, Silvia Espinosa-Matías, Sonia Vázquez-Santana, Francisco Vergara-Silva, Esteban Martínez, Judith Márquez-Guzmán and Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla. (2006). Comparative developmental series of the Mexican triurids support a euanthial interpretation for the unusual reproductive axes of Lacandonia schismatica (Triuridaceae). American Journal of Botany, 93(1): 15-35.
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (2000). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(9-11): 1-337. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F..
4. Giulietti & al. (2009). Plantas raras do Brasil: 1-496. Conservação International, Belo Horizonte, Mato Groso, Brasil
5. Maas, P. J. M. & T. Rübsamen. 1986. Triuridaceae. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 40: 1–55.
6. Maas van de Kamer, H. & P. J. M. Maas. 2003. Triuridaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 3. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 93: 839–840.