List of Alstroemeria species explained

Alstroemeria[1] is a South American genus belonging to the Alstroemeria family, composed of 124 species distributed from southern Venezuela to southern Argentina and Chile.

The genus was named by Carl Linnaeus in honor of his friend, the Swedish botanist Clas Alströmer, who was the first to collect seeds of these species in South America and send them to Europe in 1753.

Alstroemeria plants are tuberous or rhizomatous and perennial. Each erect stem has a foliage of a few lanceolate leaves and ends in an umbel of 3 to 10 flowers. These have 6 tepals with markings and patches of contrasting colors. The basic chromosome number of the genus is x = 8.[2] [3] [4]

List of species

The exact number of species is difficult to determine because new taxa[5] [6] [7] [8] are constantly being discovered and there are also nomenclatural problems that determine that many of the names cited are actually synonymies.[9] [10] [11] The following is a list of the species of the genus Alstroemeria accepted up to March 2010, in alphabetical order. For each species, the binomial name is given followed by the author, abbreviation according to convention and usage, and the valid publication.[12] Finally, for each species, its geographic distribution is also detailed.[13]

Taxa of hybrid origin (nothospecies)

The nothospecies of the genus, that is, those taxa that have been shown to owe their origin to hybridization between two different species (for example, Alstroemeria × davisiae which is the hybrid between A. pelegrina and A. pulchella) are listed below together with their parental species where these are known:

Synonymy

The following names are considered synonyms of Alstroemeria:

Notes and References

  1. Carolus Linnaeus. Pl. Alströmeria: 8 (1762).
  2. Book: Sanso . A.M. . Flora fanerogámica Argentina: fasciculo 85. 40b. Alstroemeriaceae . Xifreda . C.C. . ProFlora Conicet 14p.-. In Chromosome numbers, Anatomy and morphology, Keys. Geog . 2003 . 4 . Cordoba, Argentina . Spanish.
  3. Book: Xifreda . C.C. . Flora del valle de Lerma: Alstroemeriaceae Dumortier . Sanso . A.M. . Aportes Bot. Salta Ser. Flor . 1996 . 4 . 11 . 7.
  4. Book: Dimitri, M . Enciclopedia Argentina de Agricultura y Jardinería. . Editorial ACME S.A.C.I. . I . Buenos Aires . Spanish . Descripción de plantas cultivadas.
  5. M.C. . 2004 . New Species of Alstroemeria (Alstroemeriaceae) from the Brazilian Savannas . 14 . 1 . 17–19.
  6. Meerow . A.W. . Tombolato . A.F.C. . Meyer . F. . 1999 . Two new species of Alstroemeria L.(Alstroemeriaceae) from Brazil . Brittonia . 51 . 4 . 439–444 . 10.2307/2666527. 2666527 .
  7. M. . 2000 . Novedades en la familia Alstroemeriaceae . . 57 . 1 . 55–59.
  8. Assis . M.C. . 2002 . Novas especies de Alstroemeria L . Rev. Brasil. Bot. 25 . 2 . 177–182. 10.1590/S0100-84042002000200006 .
  9. Xifreda . C.C. . Sanso . A.M. . 1992 . Bomarea stricta is a synonym of Alstroemeria isabellana (Alstroemeriaceae) . Darwiniana . 31 . 355–356.
  10. De Assis . M.C. . De Mello-silva . R. . 2004 . Typifications and a new name in Alstroemeria L. (Alstroemeriaceae) . Taxon . 53 . 1 . 182–184 . 10.2307/4135510. 4135510 .
  11. Hofreiter . A. . 2006 . The Bomarea Setacea Complex (alstroemeriaceae) . Harvard Papers in Botany . 11 . 1 . 39–52 . 10.3100/1043-4534(2006)11[39:TBSCA]2.0.CO;2.
  12. There is only one correct name for each taxon, which is the one "validly published", that is, that complies with the "principles of nomenclature". The principles of nomenclature, common to all codes, are: that the taxon has not been named before, that its name is in Latin and has not already been used in another taxon, and that it is associated with a description and a type specimen. For scientific names to be validly published, the name, description, and location of the type specimen must be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal (i.e., with experts in the field who review publications for acceptance, correction, or rejection). For more information on nomenclatural rules, see Greuter, W. et al. 2000. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (St. Louis Code), Gantner/Koeltz.
  13. Web site: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist Series . March 10, 2010.

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