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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
APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the
APG system, of 1998), treats the family in the order
Liliales, in the clade
monocots.
;Genera
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Alstroemeria''
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Bomarea''
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Leontochir''
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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.
References
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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
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A morphological and taxonomic appraisal of the monotypic South American genus Schickendantzia (Alstroemeriaceae), Sanso, A. M. & C. C. Xifreda, , , Scripta Bot. Belgica, 1997
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Alstroemeriaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards),
''The families of flowering plants''.
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NCBI Taxonomy Browser
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links at CSDL, Texas