Bomarea multiflora

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bomarea multiflora, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard — fig. b Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167171338

Bomarea multiflora, photographed by John G. Phillips — fig. c John G. Phillips, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172422127

Bomarea multiflora, photographed by John Barkla — fig. d John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114869298

Bomarea multiflora, photographed by Cristian Antonio Calderón López — fig. f Cristian Antonio Calderón López, CC0 1.0 / obs. 100171677

Bomarea multiflora, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ — fig. g GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99640401

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Bomarea multiflora, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Colombia	CLM	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Ecuador	ECU

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.

Flowering 87 in flower of 96 examined

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Proportion of examined Bomarea multiflora in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	10	10	100%	72% to 100%
Feb	15	15	100%	80% to 100%
Mar	11	12	92%	65% to 99%
Apr	5	7	71%	36% to 92%
May	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Jun	2	2	too few examined
Jul	5	6	83%	44% to 97%
Aug	8	8	100%	68% to 100%
Sep	4	4	too few examined
Oct	12	15	80%	55% to 93%
Nov	4	4	too few examined
Dec	7	7	100%	65% to 100%

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Bomarea multiflora observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 87 of 96 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 23 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 bredemeyeriana Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
Alstroemeria bredemeyeriana Willd. ex Kunth
Alstroemeria caldasiana (Herb.) Hemsl.
Alstroemeria caldasii Kunth
Alstroemeria floribunda Kunth
Alstroemeria multiflora L.f.
Alstroemeria purpurea Willd. ex Steud.
Bomarea ambigua Sodiro
Bomarea borjae Sodiro
Bomarea caldasiana Herb.
Bomarea caldasii (Kunth) Asch. & Graebn.
Bomarea caldasii (Kunth) Herb.
Bomarea caldasii var. quitensis Killip ex Diels
Bomarea floribunda (Kunth) Herb.
Bomarea foliolosa Kraenzl.
Bomarea frondea Mast.
Bomarea halliana Herb.
Bomarea microcephala Sodiro
Bomarea oligantha Baker
Bomarea rigidifolia Sodiro
Bomarea turneriana Herb.
Bomarea vegasana Killip
Bomarea vestita Baker

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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