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Typical habitat - Los Ranchillos.
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
A2 The Upper Los Ranchillos Type Site Alstroemeria Piperata In A Patch Area Among Its Dessicated Sterile Foliage Rh Low Ammi Visnaga
Los Ranchillos.
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
A3 A Surprisingly Numerous A Piperata Colony Which Probably Owe Their Survival To Shelter By Scattered Shrubs 29 Dec 2015 Jmw
Los Ranchillos.
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
A4 A Piperata A Very Dwarf Form With Large Strongly Marked Perianths Upper Type Site 19 Nov 2014 Arf
Los Ranchillos.
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
A6 A Piperata This Form Is Both Dwarf And With Smaller Perianths It Has An Average Intensity Of Flecking Upper Type Station 23 Nov 2014 Jmw
Los Ranchillos.
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
A7 A Piperata A Large Flowered Individual With Unusually Sparse Stippling F W 12819 Type Site 30 Nov 2014 Jmw
Los Ranchillos.
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
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Type specimen (Los Ranchillos).
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
A11 Cosmosatyrus Chilensis One Of Many Species Of Browns In Chile Large Numbers Were Seen Visiting A Piperata 19 Nov 2014 Jmw
Flowers with a Chilean Satyr (Cosmosatyrus chilensis).
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
A13 Type Site A Striking And Harmless Wasp Fly Mitrodetus Dentitarsus An Avid Visitor In Some Numbers To A Piperata 20 December 2015 Jmw
Madas fly pollinator (Mitrodetus dentitarsus).
Photo:  © J.M. Watson
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Alstroemeriaceae

Alstroemeria piperata J.M. Watson, A.R. Flores

Place of Publication

Int. Rock Gard. 102: fig, 7-17 (2018)

Type citation

CHILE. V Región de Valparaíso, Provincia de Los Andes, Los Ranchillos, between the Chacabuco pass and Rungue, 2.8 km N of Rte G-105-E, 1442 m. 32º55'S 70º42' W, 19 November 2014, F& W 12815 (holotype: SGO!, isotypes: CONC!, Herb. Watson & Flores!).

References

  • Watson et al. (2018)

    Watson, J. M. , Flores, A. and Rojas, G. 2018. A Rare, narrowly endemic new species of Alstroemeria (Alstroemeriaceae) from the transversal Andean foothills of Central Chile, and its interesting ecology. International Rock Gardener 102: (25-54).

Habit

Flowering from November to end of January

Key characteristics

Closely related to A. achirae, from which it differs by its always simple (never compound) umbel; obovate (not oblanceolate) inner-upper tepals; yellow (not reddish pink) filaments; and pale (not bright yellow) anthers (Watson et al., 2018).