Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Aspidistreae is a member of the Subfamily Convallarioideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Aspidistreae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Liliidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Lilianae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Asparagales
Bromhead, 1838
- Suborder: Asparagineae
- Family: Asparagaceae
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Convallarioideae
- Tribe: Aspidistreae
- Subfamily: Convallarioideae
- Family: Asparagaceae
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Suborder: Asparagineae
- Order: Asparagales
Bromhead, 1838
- Superorder: Lilianae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Liliidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Aspidistreae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subtribe (1): Bletiinae
- Alliance (1): Calanthe
- Genus (4): Aspidistra · Gonioscypha · Rohdea · Tupistra
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 248 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Aspidistreae.
Genera
Aspidistra
Aspidistra () is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae, native to Asia, common worldwide as house plants. [more]
Gonioscypha
Rohdea
Rohdea japonica, the sole species in the genus Rohdea, is a flowering plant in the family Ruscaceae, native to eastern Asia from southwestern China to Japan. Common names include Nippon Lily, Sacred Lily, and Japanese Sacred Lily; synonyms include Orontium japonicum, Rohdea esquirolii, and Rohdea sinensis. [more]
Tupistra
Herbs perennial, rhizomatous, monopodial. Rhizome usually ascending, rarely creeping, thick, stout, sometimes slightly woody. Stem very short. Leaves basal, alternate fasciculate or distichous equitant, distinctly petiolate or not; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to ovate. Scape axillary. Inflorescence a terminal spike, 2- to many flowered, without sterile bracts apically; bracts deltoid to ovate, usually shorter than flowers. Perianth segments 6 or 8, connate for 1/2--2/3 their length into a tube, fleshy; lobes spreading. Stamens 6 or 8; filaments nearly wholly adnate to perianth tube; anthers positioned lower than stigma, dorsifixed. Ovary 3- or 4-loculed; ovules 2 per locule. Style 1, cylindric, 4--12 mm; stigma peltate to mushroom-shaped, 2--7 mm in diam., fleshy. Fruit a berry, 1-seeded.[1] [more]
At least 39 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Tupistra.
More info about the Genus Tupistra may be found here.
Footnotes
- Liang Song-jun, Minoru N. Tamura "Tupistra". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 239. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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