Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Galantheae is a member of the Subfamily Agapanthoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Galantheae:
- 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
- Family: Amaryllidaceae
(am-uh-ril-id-AY-see-ee)
Jaume Saint-Hilaire, 1805, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Agapanthoideae
- Tribe: Galantheae
- Subfamily: Agapanthoideae
- Family: Amaryllidaceae
(am-uh-ril-id-AY-see-ee)
Jaume Saint-Hilaire, 1805, nom. cons.
- 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 Galantheae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subtribe (1): Phragmipediinae
- Genus (5): Acis · Galanthus · Lapiedra · Leucojum · Phragmipedium
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 277 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Galantheae.
Genera
Acis
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Acis (Greek: ????) was the spirit of the Acis River in Sicily, beloved of the nereid, or sea-nymph, Galatea (Ga??te?a; "she who is milk-white"). Galatea returned the love of Acis, but a jealous suitor, the Sicilian Cyclops Polyphemus, killed him with a boulder. Distraught, Galatea then turned his blood into the river Acis. The Acis River flowed past Akion (Acium) near Mount Etna in Sicily. [more]
Galanthus
Galanthus (Snowdrop; Greek g?la "milk", ?nthos "flower") is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. Most flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but certain species flower in early spring and late autumn. [more]
Lapiedra
Leucojum
Spring Snowflake (Leucojum vernum) and Summer Snowflake or Loddon Lily (Leucojum aestivum) are bulbous plants belonging to the Amaryllidaceae family, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. They are the only species currently classified in the genus Leucojum. The spelling Leucoium may also be found. [more]
Phragmipedium
Phragmipedium is a genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae) (Subfamily Cypripedioideae) and the only genus comprised in the tribe Phragmipedieae and subtribe Phragmipediinae. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek phragma, which means "division", and pedium, which means "slipper" (referring to the pouch). It is abbreviated 'Phrag' in trade journals.[] [more]
At least 688 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Phragmipedium.
More info about the Genus Phragmipedium may be found here.
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