Description
Family Liliaceae
Herbs perennial
, with a rhizome, bulb, or corm, rarely shrubby or treelike. Leaves basal and/or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled
, parallel or rarely reticulate
veined. Inflorescence a raceme
, panicle, spike, umbel, reduced panicle, or other, or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual
, rarely unisexual
, actinomorphic
, rarely zygomorphic; bracts present or absent; bracteoles present or absent. Perianth usually corollalike, 6-merous, rarely 4- or 8-merous, in 2 whorls; segments free
(tepals) or united
. Stamens 6, rarely 3, 4, or 8, inserted
opposite perianth segments; filaments
free or adnate
to perianth, rarely connate
into a corona
; anthers
usually 2-loculed, basifixed
or dorsifixed
and versatile, introrse
, latrorse
, or extrorse
, dehiscing usually by vertical
slits. Carpels usually connate for most or all of their length, rarely only at base
; ovary superior, rarely semi-inferior, 3-loculed, rarely 2- or 4-loculed, with axile
placentae, or rarely 1-loculed with a parietal
placenta; ovules usually anatropous
. Nectaries septal, perigonal, or absent. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds with abundant endosperm and small embryo.
About 250 genera and 3500 species: worldwide, especially in temperate
and subtropical
regions; 57 genera (three endemic, two introduced
) and 726 species (379 endemic, 11 introduced) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Liliopsida
()
- Scopoli, 1760
- Subclass:
Liliidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lilianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Liliales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Family:
Liliaceae
()
- Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
- Lily Family
- Subfamily:
Agapanthoideae
()
- Genus:
Agapanthus
()
- L'Hér.
- Cultivar:
Aberdeen
- Botanical name: - Agapanthus 'Aberdeen'
- Cultivar:
Aberdeen
- Genus:
Agapanthus
(
- Subfamily:
Agapanthoideae
(
- Family:
Liliaceae
(
- Order:
Liliales
(
- Superorder:
Lilianae
(
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Agapanthus
There are approximately 508 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
A. 'Aberdeen' · A. 'Accent' · A. 'Adonis' · A. aff. hookerianus · A. africanus (Dwarf Lily of the Nile) · A. africanus (L.) Hoffmanns. 'Maximus Albus' · A. africanus (L.) Hoffmanns. var. minor hort. 'Maximus Albus' · A. africanus 'Albus' (White Lily of the Nile) · A. africanus 'Bressingham Blue' (Lily of The Nile) · A. africanus f. albus 'Bressingham White' (White-Flowered African Lily) · A. africanus hybrid · A. africanus 'Minimus' · A. africanus minor · A. africanus 'Queen Anne' (Queen Anne Lily of The Nile) · A. africanus 'Streamline Dwarf' (Streamline Lily of The Nile) · A. africanus 'Summer Gold' (Lily of The Nile) · A. africanus 'Trebah' · A. 'African Moon' · A. 'Albatross' · A. 'Albus' · A. 'Albus Nanus' · A. 'Albus Roseus' · A. 'Alice Gloucester' · A. 'Amsterdam' · A. 'Angela' · A. 'Anthea' · A. 'Aphrodite' · A. 'Apple Court' · A. 'Aquamarine' · A. 'Arctic Star' · A. Ardernei hybrid · A. 'Argenteus Vittatus' · A. 'Atlas' · A. 'Aureovittatus' · A. 'Baby Blue' · A. 'Back in Black' · A. 'Ballyrogan' · A. 'Balmoral' · A. 'Bangor Blue' · A. 'Basutoland' · A. 'Beatrice' · A. 'Becky' · A. 'Beeches Dwarf' · A. 'Beechpark Seedling' · A. 'Ben Hope' · A. 'Bethlehem Star' · A. 'Beth Chatto' · A. 'Bianco' · A. 'Bicton Bell' · A. 'Bicton Hybrid' · A. 'Big Blue' · A. 'Birchall' · A. 'Black Beauty' · A. 'Black Pantha' · A. 'Blauwe Valk' · A. 'Bleuet' · A. 'Bluety' · A. 'Blue Baby' · A. Blue Bird · A. 'Blue Bird' · A. 'Blue Boy' · A. 'Blue Brush' · A. 'Blue Cascade' · A. 'Blue Companion' · A. 'Blue Diamond' · A. 'Blue Dot' · A. 'Blue Formality' · A. 'Blue Fortune' · A. 'Blue Giant' · A. 'Blue Globe' (Lily of The Nile) · A. 'Blue Gown' · A. 'Blue Haze' · A. 'Blue Heaven' (Lily of The Nile) · A. 'Blue Ice' · A. 'Blue Imp' · A. 'Blue Lakes' · A. 'Blue Moon' · A. 'Blue Nile' · A. 'Blue Prince' · A. 'Blue Ribbon' · A. 'Blue Skies' · A. 'Blue Spear' · A. 'Blue Star' · A. 'Blue Steel' · A. 'Blue Triumphator' (Lily of The Nile) · A. 'Blue Umbrella' · A. 'Blue Velvet' · A. 'Bressingham Blue' · A. 'Bressingham Bounty' · A. 'Bressingham White' · A. 'Bristol' · A. 'Buckingham Palace' · A. 'Caeruleus' · A. 'Cally Blue' · A. calyciflorus · A. 'Cambridge' · A. campanulatus (Bell Agapanthus) · A. campanulatus 'Albovittatus' · A. campanulatus 'Albus Nanus' · A. campanulatus 'Beth Chatto'
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Further Reading
- Wang Fa-tsuan & Tang Tsin, eds. 1978; 1980. Liliaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 15: 1--280; 14: 1--308.
Notes
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1878130
Footnotes
- Xinqi Chen, Prof. Song-Yun Liang, Jie-mei Xu, David E. Boufford, Michael G. Gilbert, Rudolf V. Kamelin, Shoichi Kawano, Tetsuo Koyama, Elena V. Mordak, Junko Noguchi, Victor G. Soukup, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kamilla G. Tamanian, Minoru N. Tamura & Nicholas J. Turland "Liliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 73. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
