Overview
Taxonomy
The Subfamily Calochortoideae is a member of the Family Liliaceae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Calochortoideae:
- 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: Liliales
Perleb, 1826
- Family: Liliaceae
(lil-ee-AY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Calochortoideae
- Family: Liliaceae
(lil-ee-AY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Order: Liliales
Perleb, 1826
- 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 Subfamily Calochortoideae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Tribe (14): Anthemideae · Boragineae · Coronilleae · Delphinieae · Ericeae · Hyacintheae · Indigofereae · Isopyreae · Lamieae · Narcisseae · Rhododendreae · Salvieae · Teucrieae · Tradescantieae
- Genus (3): Calochortus · Hosta · Tricyrtis
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 392 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Subfamily Calochortoideae.
Genera
Calochortus
Calochortus () is a genus of plants that includes herbaceous, perennial and bulbous species. The genus includes aproximately 70 species distributed in North America from south west British Columbia to northern Guatemala and east to Nebraska and the Dakotas. Calochortus is the most widely dispersed genus of Liliaceae on the North American Pacific coast. Of these, 28 species are endemic to California. The genus Calochortus includes Mariposas (or Mariposa lilies) with open wedge-shaped petals, Globe lilies and Fairy lanterns with globe-shaped flowers, and Cat's ears and Star tulips with erect pointed petals. The word Calochortus is derived from Greek and means "beautiful grass". [more]
Hosta
Hosta (, syn.: Funkia) is a genus of about 23?45 species of lily-like plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, native to northeast Asia. They have been placed in their own family, Hostaceae (or Funkiaceae); like many 'lilioid monocots', they were once classified in the Liliaceae. The scientific name is also used as the common name; in the past they were also sometimes called the Corfu Lily, the Day Lily, or the Plantain lily, but these terms are now obsolete. The name Hosta is in honor of the Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host. The Japanese name Giboshi is also used in English to a small extent. The rejected generic name Funkia, also used as a common name, can be found in some older literature. [more]
Tricyrtis
Tricyrtis is a genus of the botanical family Liliaceae, known in English as Toad lilies. Its native range is from the Himalayas to eastern Asia, including China, Japan, Philippines and Formosa. [more]
At least 171 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Tricyrtis.
More info about the Genus Tricyrtis may be found here.
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