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The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. [2] They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a fair amount of morphological diversity despite genetic similarity.
The List of Liliaceae genera has been much reduced by modern molecular phylogenetic based taxonomy. The current taxonomy of Liliaceae treats the family Liliaceae as having three subfamilies , with the Liliodeae being further subdivided into two tribes , the Medeoleae and Lilieae .
The taxonomy of the plant family Liliaceae has had a complex history since its first description in the mid-eighteenth century. Originally, the Liliaceae were defined as having a "calix" (perianth) of six equal-coloured parts, six stamens, a single style, and a superior, three-chambered (trilocular) ovary turning into a capsule fruit at maturity.
The lily family, Liliaceae, are the largest Liliales family, with 15 genera and about 700 species, though much reduced from earlier circumscriptions, in four subfamilies. Of these genera, Gagea is the largest (204 spp.), but some are quite small, with Medeola being monotypic. They are perennial herbaceous plants, growing from bulbs or corms ...
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Liliiflorae was a term introduced by Carl Adolph Agardh in 1825 as a higher order to include the Liliaceae (which he called Coronariae) and related families. [5] [6] Argadh, together with De Candolle developed the concept of ordered botanical ranks, [7] in this case grouping together De Jussieu's (1789) recently defined collections of genera (families) [8] into higher order groupings (orders).
The family Liliaceae was first described by Michel Adanson in 1763, [16] and in his taxonomic scheme he created eight sections within it, including the Asparagi with Asparagus and three other genera. [17] The system of organising genera into families is generally credited to Antoine Laurent de Jussieu who formally described both the Liliaceae ...
Liliaceae (lily family) Lilium comes from a Latin plant name. [95] [96] 15 genera, in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in temperate zones [97] [98] Herbaceous perennials with erect stems that grow from bulbs or rhizomes.