Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Milleae is a member of the Subfamily Allioideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Milleae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866
- 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: Liliopsida
Scopoli, 1760 - Monocotyledons
- Subclass: Liliidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Lilianae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Amaryllidales
Bromhead, 1840
- Family: Alliaceae
(AL-ee-um)
J. Agardh, 1858
- Subfamily: Allioideae
- Tribe: Milleae
- Subfamily: Allioideae
- Family: Alliaceae
(AL-ee-um)
J. Agardh, 1858
- Order: Amaryllidales
Bromhead, 1840
- Superorder: Lilianae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Liliidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Liliopsida
Scopoli, 1760 - Monocotyledons
- 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
The Tribe Milleae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (3): Dandya · Milla · Petronymphe
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Milleae.
Genera
Dandya
Milla
Herbs, perennial, scapose, from corms. Corm solitary, coated with membrane. Leaves 2-7, basal; blade linear, channeled to terete; veins sometimes scabrous, particularly proximally. Scapes 1 or rarely 2, persistent, terete, sometimes scabrous, particularly proximally. Inflorescences falsely umbellate, 1-30-flowered, subtended by 4 narrowly triangular bracts that do not enclose flowers in bud. Flowers sessile but appearing pedicellate, 4-15 cm; perianth salverform; tepals 6, connate basally into long, slender tube; perianth lobes white with green, pink, or blue abaxial stripes, shorter than tube; stamens 6, inserted on perianth tube, distinct; ovary superior, 3-locular, long-stipitate, stipe adnate to perianth tube on 3 angles; style usually exserted; stigma obscurely 3-lobed; pseudopedicel formed by elongate perianth tube ± enlarged around ovary. Fruits capsular, beaked by persistent style base, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds numerous, black, flattened, minutely cellularly reticulate.[1] [more]
Petronymphe
More info about the Genus Petronymphe may be found here.
Bibliography
- Moore, H. E. Jr. 1953. The genus Milla (Amaryllidaceae-Allieae) and its allies. Gentes Herb. 8: 262-294.
Footnotes
- Dale W. McNeal Jr. "Milla". in Flora of North America Vol. 26 Page 53, 55, 332, 346. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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