''Bomarea'' is one of the two major

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in the plant family

Alstroemeriaceae Alstroemeriaceae is a family of flowering plants, with 254 known species in four genera (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ), almost entirely native to the Americas, from Central America to southern South America. One species of '' Luzuriaga'' occurs in N ...

. Most occur in the

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,Guarin, F. A. (2005)
Three new species of ''Bomarea'' (Alstroemeriaceae) from the Andean region of Colombia.
''Novon'' 15(2) 253-58. but some occur well into Central America, Mexico and the West Indies.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> Some species are grown as

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s.Sanso, A. M. and C. C. Xifreda. (2001)
Generic delimitation between ''Alstroemeria'' and ''Bomarea'' (Alstroemeriaceae).
''Annals of Botany'' 88(6) 1057-69.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

/ref> These plants are similar to their relatives in ''

Alstroemeria ''Alstroemeria'' (), commonly called the Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alstroemeriaceae. They are all native to South America, although some have become naturalized in the United States, Mexi ...

'', but many take a twining form. Others stand freely upright. A distinctive morphological trait of most, if not all, Alstroemeriaceae is

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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.Cáceres González, D. A. (2013)
''Bomarea rinconii'' (Alstroemeriaceae), a new species from the Talamanca Mountains in Chiriqui Province, Panama.
''Phytotaxa'' 105(1) 21–4. There are about 110Alzate, F., et al. (2008)
Panbiogeographical analysis of the genus ''Bomarea'' (Alstroemeriaceae).
''Journal of Biogeography'' 35 1250-57. to 122 species in the genus.

Species

Species accepted as of July 2014:

References

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