Bomarea

Taxobox
name = "Bomarea"

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image_width = 220px
image_caption = "Bomarea" sp., southern Ecuador Note leaf bases twisted 180°
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Liliales
familia = Alstroemeriaceae
genus = "Bomarea"
genus_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = Several, see text.

"Bomarea" is one of the two major genera in the plant family Alstroemeriaceae. Most occur in the Andes. Several species are occasionally found as garden plants.

It is essentially a twining version of their relatives in "Alstroemeria", though some species stand freely upright.

Perhaps the most fascinating — and telltale — morphological trait of most if not all Alstroemeriaceae is the fact that the leaves are resupinate: they twist from the base so that what appears to be the upper leaf surface is in fact the lower leaf surface.

elected species

* "Bomarea acutifolia"
* "Bomarea angustifolia"
* "Bomarea borjae"
* "Bomarea brachysepala"
* "Bomarea ceratophora"
* "Bomarea chimborazensis"
* "Bomarea elegans"
* "Bomarea glaucescens"
* "Bomarea goniocaulon"
* "Bomarea gracilis"
* "Bomarea graminifolia"
* "Bomarea hartwegii"
* "Bomarea lanata"
* "Bomarea longipes"
* "Bomarea lutea"
* "Bomarea lyncina"
* "Bomarea uncifolia"