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Amaryllidaceae The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus ''Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryllis fa ...

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Allioideae Allioideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Alliaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, ''Allium''. ...

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Gilliesieae Gilliesieae is a tribe of herbaceous geophyte plants belonging to the subfamily Allioideae of the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae). Described in 1826, it contains fifteen genera and about eighty species. It has been variously treated as a subfa ...

, native to Chile and Argentina.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an mathematician Francisco Borja de Solar. ;SpeciesRavenna, P. F. 1969. Liliaceae, In: M. N. Correa (ed.),. 8(2): 138–151. In M.N. Correa (ed.) Flora Patagónica. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires * '' Solaria atropurpurea'' (Phil.)

Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the cap ...

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Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

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Solaria attenuata Solaria may refer to: *Solaria (fictional planet), a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's novel ''The Naked Sun'' * ''Solaria'' (magazine), an Italian literary magazine 1926–1936 * ''Solaria'' (plant), a genus of South American plants See also *S ...

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Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

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Neuquén Neuquén (; arn, Nehuenken) is the capital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province. It occupies a strip of land west of the confluence of the Limay and Neuquén rivers w ...

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Solaria brevicoalita Solaria may refer to: *Solaria (fictional planet), a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's novel ''The Naked Sun'' * ''Solaria'' (magazine), an Italian literary magazine 1926–1936 * ''Solaria'' (plant), a genus of South American plants See also *S ...

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Solaria curacavina Solaria may refer to: *Solaria (fictional planet), a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's novel ''The Naked Sun'' * ''Solaria'' (magazine), an Italian literary magazine 1926–1936 * ''Solaria'' (plant), a genus of South American plants See also *S ...

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Solaria cuspidata ''Solaria cuspidata'' is a species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is endemic to the Coquimbo region of Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It i ...

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Coquimbo Coquimbo is a port city, commune and capital of the Elqui Province, located on the Pan-American Highway, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. Coquimbo is situated in a valley south of La Serena, with which it forms Greater La Serena with more than ...

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Amaryllidaceae genera Allioideae {{Amaryllidaceae-stub