Useful information about the plant family

Family: Alstroemeriaceae Dumort. 1829

Description-internal

Erect or twining herb with rhizomes. Two genera: Alstroemeria (60) and Bomarea (100).

Distribution

Throughout the Neotropics, the centre in the Andes.

Floral characters

Inflorescences terminal, racemose or umbellate, rarely single-flowered, generally subtended by large leaf-like bracts. Flowers actinomorphic to distinctly zygomorphic. Tepals 6, free, concolorous or the inner whorl more variegated. Stamens 6. Ovary inferior, (1-)3-locular, style 1, stigma 3-lobed; placentation axile (or parietal), ovules many.

Leaf characters

Leaves alternate, parallel veined, narrowed into a short petiole without sheath, generally twisted.

Stipules

absent

Fruit characters

Fruit a capsule, rarely indehiscent.

Glands

absent

Hairs

absent

Latex

absent

Uses

Ornamentals

Distribution maps

(online von http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ . Dort zitiert wie unter jedem Diagramm vermerkt):

Alstroemerieae (Alstroemeriaceae)
map: from Aker & Healy 1990; Hofreiter 2006 - the cultivated Bomarea edulis is particularly widely distributed

Luzuriageae (Alstroemeriaceae)
Peru to Tierra del Fuego, Falkland Islands, New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales to Tasmania)