Alstroemeriaceae
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| Alstroemeriaceae | |
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| Alstromeria sp | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Alstroemeriaceae Dumort. |
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The Alstroemeriaceae is a family of flowering plants, with 200 species in three or four genera, native to the Americas, from Central America to southern South America.
The genus Alstroemeria, commonly called the Peruvian lilies, are popular florist's and garden flowers. The genus Bomarea is a vine that produces clusters of variously-colored, bell-shaped flowers.
[edit] Classification
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. The APG III system, of 2009, merged the obscure family Luzuriagaceae into the Alstroemeriaceae, since the former group included only two genera, was the sister group of the Alstroemeriaceae, and possessed the same distinctive twisted petioles.
- Tribe Alstroemerieae
- Tribe Luzuriageae
[edit] References
- Aagesen, L. & A. M. Sanso. (2003). "The phylogeny of the Alstroemeriaceae, based on morphology, rps16 intron, and rbcL sequence data". Syst. Bot. 28 (58).
- Sanso, A. M. & C. C. Xifreda (1997). "A morphological and taxonomic appraisal of the monotypic South American genus Schickendantzia (Alstroemeriaceae)". Scripta Bot. Belgica 15 (139).
- Alstroemeriaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards), The families of flowering plants.
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL, Texas
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Bomarea sp. in southern Ecuador
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