| Fire lilies Flame lilies | |
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| golden flame lily (Pyrolirion arvense)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Amaryllidoideae |
| Tribe: | Eustephieae |
| Genus: | Pyrolirion Herb. |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Leucothauma Ravenna | |
Pyrolirion, commonly known as fire lilies or flame lilies, is a small genus of herbaceous, bulb-forming South American plants in the Amaryllis family, native to Chile, Peru, and Bolivia.[3][4]
- ^ 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
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Herbert, William 1821. Appendix to Botanical Register, page 37
- ^ Tropicos, Pyrolirion Herb.