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Definition of Bomarea
1. Noun. Large genus of tropical American vines having showy often spotted umbellate flowers; sometimes placed in family Liliaceae especially subfamily Alstroemeriaceae.
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Amaryllidaceae, Amaryllis Family, Family Amaryllidaceae
Member holonyms: Bomarea Edulis, Salsilla, Bomarea Salsilla, Salsilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bomarea
Literary usage of Bomarea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Bomarea Lately it has become popular again. It deserves to be permanently
naturalized in the American landscape. To produce the largest specimens, ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1879)
"Mr. Elwes made a few observations on a specimen of Bomarea ... to Mr. LT Davis,
for Pernettya mucronata lilacina ; to Mr. W. Bull, for Bomarea ..."
3. Amaryllidaceae: Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous by William Herbert (1837)
"Bomarea.—Stalk twining; germen triangularly turbi- nate; segments of the perianth
inserted in deciduous glands on the germen; sepals nearly equal, ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"In Bomarea it is destitute of this irregularity, the two series composing the
flower, although differing slightly from each other, being composed of ..."
5. List of Published Names of Plants Introduced to Cultivation: 1876 to 1896 by Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1900)
"Umbels terminal, with from 15-20 fl. 1-lj in. long ; outer segments bright red,
inner ones yellow dotted with dark brown. Mexico ; Guatemala. Bomarea ..."
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