Bomarea hirsuta(Kunth) Herb.

WFO wfo-0000761759 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 4 separate observations

Bomarea hirsuta, photographed by Dan MacNeal
fig. a Dan MacNeal, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-01-15 / obs. 60562707
Bomarea hirsuta, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3844202
Bomarea hirsuta, photographed by lallen
fig. c lallen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 111379630
Bomarea hirsuta, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. d Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 109663975

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Bomarea hirsuta is native: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panamá ColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorPanamá
Native distribution of Bomarea hirsuta, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Panamá PAN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Alstroemeria hirsuta Kunth
  • Bomarea alpicola Kraenzl.
  • Bomarea caldasiana var. concolor Cufod.
  • Bomarea caldasiana var. villosa Cufod.
  • Bomarea hirsuta var. concolor (Cufod.) Killip
  • Bomarea hirsuta var. hirsuta
  • Bomarea kalbreyeri Baker
  • Bomarea lanata Sodiro

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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