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Bomarea formosissima

Botanic Family

Alstroemeriaceae

Author

(Ruiz & Pavon) Herbert

Propagation

D.S.

Common Names

• Arhuinchu
• Quechua
• Comadres
• Sumac-Huaita (Peru)

Geographical Habitats

• C. Bolivia
• Ecuador
• C. Peru

Natural Habitats

• Cloud forest
• rocky slopes
• forest edge scrubland

Flowering Times

• Jul
• Aug (Peru) Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Jun
• Aug (Bolivia)

Large rhizomatous climbing vine with glabrous angular stems to 6m+. Glabrous leaves to 250mm x 60mm, bracts to 40mm long. Rufo-tomentose umbels, red to yellow-orange flowers with dark red spots, rufo-puberulous reddish-yellow to oxblood red sepals to 40mm x 10mm, purplish-red at apex, petals slightly longer than sepals to 40mm x 20mm, yellow & densely spotted purple. Turbinate green to purplish capsule

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Kew
• FP