Bomarea

Bomarea
Bomarea sp., southern Ecuador
Note leaf bases twisted 180°
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Alstroemeriaceae
Genus: Bomarea
Mirb., 1804
Type species
Bomarea ovata[1]
(Cav.) Mirb.
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Leontochir Phil.
  • Vandesia Salisb.
  • Collania Herb. 1837, illegitimate homonym, not Schult. & Schult. f. 1830 nor Broth. ex Sakurai 1941
  • Sphaerine Herb.
  • Dodecasperma Raf.
  • Wichuraea M.Roem.
  • Danbya Salisb.

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.

Selected species

Species accepted as of July 2014:[2]

  1. Bomarea acutifolia - Mexico, Central America
  2. Bomarea albimontana - Peru
  3. Bomarea alstroemerioides - Peru
  4. Bomarea amazonica - Peru
  5. Bomarea amilcariana - Venezuela
  6. Bomarea ampayesana - Peru
  7. Bomarea anceps - Peru
  8. Bomarea andimarcana - Peru, Bolivia
  9. Bomarea andreana - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
  10. Bomarea angulata - Ecuador, Peru
  11. Bomarea angustissima - Peru
  12. Bomarea aurantiaca - Peru, Bolivia
  13. Bomarea boliviensis - Bolivia, Argentina
  14. Bomarea brachysepala - Ecuador, Peru
  15. Bomarea bracteata - Peru
  16. Bomarea bracteolata - Panama
  17. Bomarea bredemeyeriana - Colombia, Venezuela
  18. Bomarea brevis - Peru, Bolivia
  19. Bomarea callejasiana - Colombia
  20. Bomarea campanularia - Ecuador, Peru
  21. Bomarea campylophylla - Peru
  22. Bomarea carderi - Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
  23. Bomarea caucana - Colombia
  24. Bomarea caudata - Peru
  25. Bomarea caudatisepala - Panama
  26. Bomarea ceratophora - Ecuador
  27. Bomarea chaparensis - Bolivia
  28. Bomarea chimborazensis - Ecuador
  29. Bomarea chiriquina - Panama, Costa Rica
  30. Bomarea coccinea - Peru
  31. Bomarea colombiana - Colombia
  32. Bomarea cordifolia - Peru
  33. Bomarea cornigera - Peru
  34. Bomarea cornuta - Peru, Ecuador
  35. Bomarea costaricensis - Panama, Costa Rica
  36. Bomarea crassifolia - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
  37. Bomarea crinita - Peru
  38. Bomarea crocea - Peru
  39. Bomarea densiflora - Peru, Ecuador
  40. Bomarea denticulata - Peru
  41. Bomarea diffracta - Colombia
  42. Bomarea dispar - Peru
  43. Bomarea dissitifolia - Peru, Ecuador
  44. Bomarea dolichocarpa - Peru, Ecuador
  45. Bomarea dulcis - Peru, Bolivia, Chile
  46. Bomarea edulis - widespread across much of Latin America from central Mexico to Argentina, plus West Indies
  47. Bomarea endotrachys - Peru
  48. Bomarea engleriana - Peru
  49. Bomarea euryantha - Colombia
  50. Bomarea euryphylla - Colombia, Ecuador
  51. Bomarea evecta - Ecuador
  52. Bomarea ferreyrae - Peru
  53. Bomarea foertheriana - Peru
  54. Bomarea formosissima - Peru, Bolivia
  55. Bomarea glaucescens - Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia
  56. Bomarea goniocaulon - Peru, Ecuador
  57. Bomarea graminifolia - Ecuador
  58. Bomarea hartwegii - Peru, Ecuador
  59. Bomarea herbertiana - Colombia
  60. Bomarea herrerae - Peru
  61. Bomarea hieronymi - Colombia, Ecuador
  62. Bomarea hirsuta - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
  63. Bomarea huanuco - Peru
  64. Bomarea inaequalis - Colombia
  65. Bomarea involucrosa - Peru, Bolivia
  66. Bomarea kraenzlinii - Colombia
  67. Bomarea lancifolia - Ecuador
  68. Bomarea latifolia - Peru
  69. Bomarea libertadensis - Peru
  70. Bomarea linifolia - Colombia, Ecuador
  71. Bomarea longipes - Peru, Ecuador
  72. Bomarea longistyla - Peru
  73. Bomarea lopezii - Venezuela
  74. Bomarea lutea - Ecuador
  75. Bomarea macrocephala - Argentina, Bolivia
  76. Bomarea macusanii - Peru
  77. Bomarea moritziana - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
  78. Bomarea multiflora - Colombia, Ecuador
  79. Bomarea multipes - Ecuador
  80. Bomarea nematocaulon - Peru
  81. Bomarea nervosa - Peru, Ecuador
  82. Bomarea nubigena - Ecuador
  83. Bomarea obovata - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  84. Bomarea ovallei - Atacama
  85. Bomarea ovata - Argentina, Bolivia, Peru
  86. Bomarea oxytepala - Ecuador
  87. Bomarea pardina - Colombia, Peru
  88. Bomarea parvifolia - Peru
  89. Bomarea patacoensis - Ecuador
  90. Bomarea patinii - Colombia, Ecuador
  91. Bomarea pauciflora - Colombia, Venezuela
  92. Bomarea perglabra - Ecuador
  93. Bomarea peruviana - Peru
  94. Bomarea porrecta - Peru
  95. Bomarea pseudopurpurea - Peru
  96. Bomarea pudibunda - Colombia
  97. Bomarea pumila - Bolivia, Peru
  98. Bomarea puracensis - Colombia
  99. Bomarea purpurea - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
  100. Bomarea rosea - Peru
  101. Bomarea salicifolia - Venezuela
  102. Bomarea salsilla - Chile
  103. Bomarea secundifolia - Peru
  104. Bomarea setacea - Peru
  105. Bomarea shuttleworthii - Colombia
  106. Bomarea speciosa - Peru
  107. Bomarea spissiflora - Ecuador, Peru
  108. Bomarea stans - Argentina, Bolivia
  109. Bomarea suberecta - Panama, Costa Rica
  110. Bomarea superba - Peru
  111. Bomarea tarmensis - Peru
  112. Bomarea torta - Ecuador, Peru
  113. Bomarea tribrachiata - Ecuador, Peru
  114. Bomarea trichophylla - Colombia
  115. Bomarea trimorphophylla - Ecuador
  116. Bomarea truxillensis - Venezuela
  117. Bomarea uncifolia- Ecuador
  118. Bomarea vargasii - Peru
  119. Bomarea velascoana - Peru
  120. Bomarea vitellina - Colombia
  121. Bomarea weigendii - Peru

References

  1. lectotype designated by Sanso & Xifreda, Darwiniana 33: 323 (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Hofreiter, A. (2006). Leontochir: A synonym of Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae)? Harvard Papers in Botany 11(1) 53-60.
  4. Guarin, F. A. (2005). Three new species of Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae) from the Andean region of Colombia. Novon 15(2) 253-58.
  5. Sanso, A. M. and C. C. Xifreda. (2001). Generic delimitation between Alstroemeria and Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae). Annals of Botany 88(6) 1057-69.
  6. Hofreiter, A. (2008). A revision of Bomarea subgenus Bomarea s.str. section Multiflorae (Alstroemeriaceae). Systematic Botany 33: 661-684.
  7. 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.
  8. 8.0 8.1 Cáceres González, D. A. (2013). Bomarea rinconii (Alstroemeriaceae), a new species from the Talamanca Mountains in Chiriqui Province, Panama. Phytotaxa 105(1) 21–4.
  9. Alzate, F., et al. (2008). Panbiogeographical analysis of the genus Bomarea (Alstroemeriaceae). Journal of Biogeography 35 1250-57.
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