List of Alstroemeria species

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.

Each erect stem has a foliage of a few lanceolate leaves and ends in an umbel of 3 to 10 flowers.

[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.

[13] 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:[13] The following names are considered synonyms of Alstroemeria:[13]

Flowers of Alstroemeria aurea derived from plants grown in Tasmania , Australia .
Alstroemeria aurea .
Alstroemeria hookeri .
Alstroemeria ligtu , photographed in its natural habitat , in central Chile , at 1200 meters above sea level.
Alstroemeria pelegrina , native flora of the coastline of central Chile and the southern coast of the Coquimbo Region .
Detail of an Alstroemeria revoluta flower photographed at the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden .
Alstroemeria psittacina (= Alstroemeria pulchella ).
The genus Alstroemeria is the source of a large number of ornamental cultivars . The image shows the flowers of the cultivar 'Saturne' of Alstroemeria aurea .
Flowers of the different cultivars of Alstroemeria are used as cut flowers all over the world.
A watercolor of Alstroemeria flowers, painted in 1808 by Sarah Rhodes (1787-1862), an amateur botanical artist.