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]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,758 meters (0 to 5,768 feet).[2]
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:
Rubioideae
()
- Genus:
Astelia
()
- Linnaeus, 1753, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
fragrans
- Colenso
- Botanical name: - Astelia fragrans
- Specific epithet:
fragrans
- Colenso
- Genus:
Astelia
(
- Subfamily:
Rubioideae
(
- Family:
Liliaceae
(
- Order:
Liliales
(
- Superorder:
Lilianae
(
- Subclass:
Liliidae
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Colenso
Publication
: in Trans. N. Z. Inst. xv. (1883) 333.
A tentatively accepted name
in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Astelia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 51 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. albicans · A. alpina · A. alpina var. alpina · A. alpina var. novae-hollandiae · A. 'Alpine Ruby' · A. argyrocoma (Silverhair Pineapplegrass) · A. australiana · A. banksii · A. chathamica (Silver Spear Astelia) · A. chathamica 'Silver Spear' · A. cockaynei · A. cunninghamii · A. fragrans · A. fragrans × chathamica · A. graminea · A. grandis · A. hastata · A. hemichrysa · A. linearis · A. linearis var. novaezelandiae · A. 'Lodestone' · A. 'Luzulliea Johnsen' · A. menziesiana (Menzies' Astelia) · A. microsperma · A. montana · A. nadeaudi · A. nadeaudii · A. nana · A. neo-caledonica · A. neocaledonica · A. nervosa (Mountain Astelia) · A. nervosa 'Bronze Giant' · A. nervosa 'Westland' (Mountain Astelia) · A. nivicola · A. nivicola 'Red Gem' · A. papuana · A. petriei · A. psychrocharis · A. pumila · A. rapensis · A. ricardi · A. richardi · A. skottsbergii · A. solandri · A. spicata · A. stylosa · A. subulata · A. tovii · A. trinervia · A. veratroides · A. waialealae (Kauai Pa'iniu)
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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
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 19, 2007.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 24, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5972407
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-275810
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15084553
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:531614-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 531614-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 875869
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]
- Mean = 587.050 meters (1,926.017 feet), Standard Deviation = 870.520 based on 2,119 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
