Pyrolirion

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.