ALSTROEMERIACEAE

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 APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots.
;Genera

★ ''Alstroemeria''

★ ''Bomarea''

★ ''Leontochir''

★ ''Schickendantzia'' (included in ''Alstroemeria'' by some botanists)
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.

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★ The phylogeny of the Alstroemeriaceae, based on morphology, rps16 intron, and rbcL sequence data, Aagesen, L. & A. M. Sanso., , , Syst. Bot., 2003

★ A morphological and taxonomic appraisal of the monotypic South American genus Schickendantzia (Alstroemeriaceae), Sanso, A. M. & C. C. Xifreda, , , Scripta Bot. Belgica, 1997

★ Alstroemeriaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards), ''The families of flowering plants''.

★ NCBI Taxonomy Browser

★ links at CSDL, Texas