Bomarea
Bomarea | |
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Bomarea sp., southern Ecuador Note leaf bases twisted 180° | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Liliales |
Family: | Alstroemeriaceae |
Genus: | Bomarea Mirb., 1804 |
Type species | |
Bomarea ovata[1] (Cav.) Mirb.
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Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Bomarea is one of the two major genera in the plant family Alstroemeriaceae. Most occur in the Andes,[4] but some occur well into Central America, Mexico and the West Indies.[2] Some species are grown as ornamental plants.[5][6][7]
These plants are similar to their relatives in Alstroemeria, but many take a twining form. Others stand freely upright. A distinctive morphological trait of most, if not all, Alstroemeriaceae is resupinate leaves. The blades twist from the base, taking an upside-down position on the stems.
Bomarea is divided into four subgenera, Baccata, Bomarea, Sphaerine, and Wichuraea. The largest is Bomarea with about 70 species.[8]
There are about 110[9] to 122 species[8] in the genus.
Species[]
Species accepted as of July 2014:[2]
Image | Name | Distribution |
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Mexico, Central America | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Venezuela | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Peru, Bolivia | ||
Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela | ||
Ecuador, Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Peru, Bolivia | ||
Bolivia, Argentina | ||
Bomarea brachysepala | Ecuador, Peru | |
Peru | ||
Panama | ||
Colombia, Venezuela | ||
Peru, Bolivia | ||
Colombia | ||
Ecuador, Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Panama, Colombia, Ecuador | ||
Colombia | ||
Peru | ||
Panama | ||
Bomarea ceratophora | Ecuador | |
Bolivia | ||
Bomarea chimborazensis | Ecuador | |
Panama, Costa Rica | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Peru, Ecuador | ||
Panama, Costa Rica | ||
Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Peru, Ecuador | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Peru | ||
Peru, Ecuador | ||
Peru, Ecuador | ||
Peru, Bolivia, Chile | ||
Bomarea edulis | widespread across much of Latin America from central Mexico to Argentina, plus West Indies | |
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Colombia, Ecuador | ||
Ecuador | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Peru, Bolivia | ||
Bomarea glaucescens | Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia | |
Bomarea goniocaulon | Peru, Ecuador | |
Bomarea graminifolia | Ecuador | |
Bomarea hartwegii | Peru, Ecuador | |
Colombia | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia, Ecuador | ||
Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Peru, Bolivia | ||
Colombia | ||
Ecuador | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia, Ecuador | ||
Bomarea longipes | Peru, Ecuador | |
Peru | ||
Venezuela | ||
Bomarea lutea | Ecuador | |
Argentina, Bolivia | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela | ||
Bomarea multiflora | Colombia, Ecuador | |
Ecuador | ||
Peru | ||
Peru, Ecuador | ||
Ecuador | ||
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru | ||
Atacama | ||
Argentina, Bolivia, Peru | ||
Ecuador | ||
Colombia, Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Ecuador | ||
Colombia, Ecuador | ||
Colombia, Venezuela | ||
Ecuador | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Bolivia, Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Venezuela | ||
Bomarea salsilla | Chile | |
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Peru | ||
Ecuador, Peru | ||
Argentina, Bolivia | ||
Panama, Costa Rica | ||
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Ecuador, Peru | ||
Ecuador, Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Ecuador | ||
Venezuela | ||
Bomarea uncifolia | Ecuador | |
Peru | ||
Peru | ||
Colombia | ||
Peru |
References[]
- ^ lectotype designated by Sanso & Xifreda, Darwiniana 33: 323 (1995)
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Hofreiter, A. (2006). Leontochir: A synonym of Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae)? Harvard Papers in Botany 11(1) 53-60.
- ^ Guarin, F. A. (2005). Three new species of Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae) from the Andean region of Colombia. Novon 15(2) 253-58.
- ^ Sanso, A. M. and C. C. Xifreda. (2001). Generic delimitation between Alstroemeria and Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae).[dead link] Annals of Botany 88(6) 1057-69.
- ^ Hofreiter, A. (2008). A revision of Bomarea subgenus Bomarea s.str. section Multiflorae (Alstroemeriaceae). Systematic Botany 33: 661-684.
- ^ Chacón, J., M. Camargo de Assis, A. W. Meerow, and S. S. Renner. 2012. From east Gondwana to Central America: Historical biogeography of the Alstroemeriaceae. Journal of Biogeography 39(10): 1806-1818. [1]
- ^ a b Cáceres González, D. A. (2013). Bomarea rinconii (Alstroemeriaceae), a new species from the Talamanca Mountains in Chiriqui Province, Panama. Phytotaxa 105(1) 21–4.
- ^ Alzate, F., et al. (2008). Panbiogeographical analysis of the genus Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae). Journal of Biogeography 35 1250-57.
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