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Bessera is a genus of plants in the Themidaceae family Also placed in: Alliaceae or Liliaceae.

A small genus of mostly herbaceous flowering plants with corms, they are perennials native to Mexico; They have flowers with petals and petaloid sepals (tepals) with compound pistils.

Bessera elegans called coral drops is cultivated and is a half-hardy Mexican herbaceous plant growing from corms with drooping terminal umbels of showy red-and-white colored flowers.

From Wikispecies

Bessere is a genus name common to several families:

• Themidacaeae: Bessera Schult.f.
• Boraginaceae: Bessera Schult.
• Euphorbiaceae: Bessera Spreng.
• Nyctaginaceae: Bessera Vell.