Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Liliales Perleb
Family
Alstroemeriaceae Dumort.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Luzuriaga Ruiz & Pav., Fl. Peruv. [Ruiz & Pavon] 65 (1802)
Synonymy:
  • = Enargea Gaertn. (1788) nom. rej.
 Description

Fls solitary, or few and axillary; pedicel arising from a group of small membr. scales. Per. white, spreading; segs free subequal. Stamens free; filaments glab., erect. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-locular; style terete; stigma obscurely 3-lobed. Fr. subglobose. Seeds few, pale. Glab. subshrubs with thin, branched, jointed stems, the lower nodes with small, membr. scales, the upper nodes with small, alt., oblong to elliptic, ± sessile, resupinate lvs.

[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Luzuriaga Ruiz & Pav.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Exotic: Casual1
Total2
 Bibliography
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2009: An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 105–121.
Bobrov, A. 1980: Specimina authentica a J. R. Forster et G. Forster in herbario Instituti Botanici (LE) conservata. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii 17: 246–254.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Ruiz, H.; Pavon, J.A. 1802: Flora Peruvianae, et Chilensis Prodromus. Vol. 3. Gabrielis de Sancha, Madrid.