Eleutherine is a genus of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous plants in the family Iridaceae, first described as a genus in 1843. It is native to Latin America and the West Indies.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
The genus name may be derived from the Greek word eleuthera, meaning "free".
Species Eleutherine angusta Ravenna - Paraguay, Mato Grosso do Sul Eleutherine bulbosa (Mill.) Urb. - West Indies, South America; naturalized in Zaire, Réunion, India, Cambodia, Vietnam Eleutherine citriodora (Ravenna) Ravenna - Bolivia, northern Argentina Eleutherine latifolia (Standl. & L.O.Williams) Ravenna - Mexico, Central America, Bolivia, northern Argentina
References
Peter Goldblatt and Neil Snow. 1991. Systematics and Chromosome Cytology of Eleutherine Herbert (Iridaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 78, No. 4 (1991), pp. 942–949.