Pyrolirion

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Genus of flowering plants

title: "Pyrolirion" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["amaryllidoideae", "amaryllidaceae-genera", "flora-of-southern-america", "flora-of-ecuador", "flora-of-chile", "flora-of-peru", "flora-of-bolivia", "taxa-named-by-william-herbert-(botanist)"] description: "Genus of flowering plants" topic_path: "general/amaryllidoideae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolirion" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Pyrolirion, commonly known as fire lilies or flame lilies, is a small genus of herbaceous, bulbous South American plants in the Amaryllis family, native to Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

Pyrolirion are bulbous, herbs with tunicate bulbs and slim, annual, linear to linear-lanceolate leaves. The bulbs produce offsets.

Generative characteristics

The white, orange or yellow flowers are borne erect on solitary hollow scapes. The perigone is funnel-shaped, with a cylindrical tube that flares out abruptly into star-like radially arranged (actinomorphic) petals. Small scale-like "paraperigone" may be present at the base. The flower has 6 tepals. The androecium consists of 6 stamens. The stamens arise from or below the throat. The gynoecium consists of 3 carpels. The style has three branches at the tip with spoon-shaped (spatulate) stigmas. The capsule fruit bears discoid, compressed, black seeds with a white raphe.

Cytology

Various chromosome counts have been reported: 2n = 26, 34, 51, 54.

Taxonomy

The genus Pyrolirion was first established by the British botanist William Herbert in 1837. The name Pyrolirion is from Greek πῦρ (pyr, "fire") and λείριον (leirion, "lily"). It is named after the flame-like colors of the flowers of Pyrolirion arvense (the golden flame lily).

Pyrolirion is classified under the tribe Eustephieae of the subfamily Amaryllidoideae, family Amaryllidaceae. It was previously sometimes considered by some authors as a subgenus of Zephyranthes (rain lilies), but DNA sequencing has shown that it is a distinct genus more closely related to the genera Chlidanthus, Eustephia, and Hieronymiella in the tribe Eustephieae than to members of the tribe Hippeastreae.

Species

The species-level classification of Pyrolirion is unclear and in need of further study. The following are accepted at present (April 2015)

  1. Pyrolirion albicans Herb. – Peru (Arequipa)
  2. Pyrolirion arvense (F.Dietr.) – Peru (Cusco, Lima)
  3. Pyrolirion boliviense (Baker) Sealy – Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz)
  4. Pyrolirion cutleri (Cárdenas) Ravenna – Bolivia (Cochabamba)
  5. Pyrolirion flavum Herb. – Peru (Cusco, Lima)
  6. Pyrolirion huantae Ravenna – Peru
  7. Pyrolirion tarahuasicum Ravenna – Peru
  8. Pyrolirion tubiflorum (L'Hér.) M.Roem. – Peru, Chile, Ecuador

Cultivation

It is not widely cultivated. It requires a period of dormancy in winter.

References

References

  1. 1835 illustration from Edwards's Botanical Register; Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatment. London 20: t. 1724. As ''Pyrolirion aureum''
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  4. Herbert, William 1821. Appendix to Botanical Register, page 37
  5. Missouri Botanical Garden. (n.d.-af). ''Pyrolirion'' Herb. Tropicos. Retrieved February 28, 2025, from https://www.tropicos.org/name/40021379
  6. Oleas, N. H., Jost, L., Zambrano, R., Torres, C. G., Heredia, J., Bustamante, M., ... & Quintana, C. (2025). [https://checklist.pensoft.net/article/140459/download/pdf/ First records of the genus ''Pyrolirion'' Herb.(Liliopsida, Asparagales, Amaryllidaceae) in Ecuador.] Check List, 21(1), 142-147.
  7. Rand, E. S. (1873). [https://www.google.de/books/edition/Bulbs/GcRLAAAAYAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=Pyrolirion&pg=PA210&printsec=frontcover Bulbs: A Treatise on Hardy and Tender Bulbs and Tubers.] p. 210. USA: Shepard and Gill.
  8. ''Pyrolirion''. (n.d.). Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved February 28, 2025, from https://eol.org/pages/30182
  9. Lemaire, C. A. (1854). [https://www.google.de/books/edition/Le_Jardin_fleuriste/hO8XAAAAYAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=Pyrolirion&pg=PP337&printsec=frontcover Le Jardin fleuriste: journal général des progrés et des intérets horticoles et botaniques ....] Belgien: F. et E. Gyselynck.
  10. Howard, T. M. (2010). [https://www.google.de/books/edition/Bulbs_for_Warm_Climates/5AXYEAAAQBAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=Pyrolirion&pg=PA128&printsec=frontcover Bulbs for Warm Climates.] p. 128. Deutschland: University of Texas Press.
  11. Henderson, P. (1881). [https://www.google.de/books/edition/Handbook_of_Plants_and_General_Horticult/c1YZAAAAYAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=Pyrolirion&pg=PA182&printsec=frontcover Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture.] p. 182. USA: (n.p.).
  12. A.W. Meerow & D.A. Snijman. (1998). "Flowering plants, Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae)". Springer.
  13. Kosteletzky, V. F. (1831). [https://www.google.de/books/edition/Allgemeine_medizinisch_pharmazeutische_F/Abw8AAAAcAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=Pyrolirion&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover Allgemeine medizinisch-pharmazeutische Flora, enthaltend die systematische Aufzählung und Beschreibung sämmtlicher bis jetzt bekannt gewordenen Gewächse aller Welttheile in ihrer Beziehung auf Diätetik, Therapie und Pharmazie nach den natürlichen Familien des Gewächsreiches geordnet.] p. 143. Deutschland: Hoff.
  14. Sweet, R., Don, G. (1839). [https://www.google.de/books/edition/Hortus_Britannicus/xP4CAAAAYAAJ?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=Pyrolirion&pg=PA675&printsec=frontcover Hortus Britannicus.] p. 675. Vereinigtes Königreich: J. Ridgway.
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