See text Clinantheae is a tribe (in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae), where it forms part of the Andean clade, one of two American clades.

[2] The tribe was described in 2000 by Alan Meerow et al. as a result of a molecular phylogenetic study of the American Amaryllidoideae.

[1] This demonstrated that the tribe Stenomesseae, including the type genus Stenomesson was polyphyletic.

This was Clinanthus, the oldest name for these species, and consequently the tribe Clinantheae.

[2] The placement of Clinantheae within subfamily Amaryllidoideae is shown in the following cladogram, where this tribe is shown as a sister group to the Hymenocallideae.