Beauverdia is a genus of South American plants in the onion subfamily within Amaryllis family, native to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. The plants are bulb-forming perennial herbs. Affinities and classification of the species are unresolved at present, and require additional investigation. In 1972, genus Ipheion was divided into two sections, Hirtellum and Ipheion. However, the development of phylogenetic analysis revealed that Ipheion was not monophyletic, although the division into sections was later supported. Beauverdia Herter had been first described in 1943 as a genus with 10 species. Originally it was created to distinguish those species with single-flowered inflorescences from others with many-flowered inflorescences within Nothoscordum and other genera, some of them no longer con