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Taxonomy

Notes:

Publishing author: Haw. Publication: Rev. Pl. Succ. 37 (1821)

Physical 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]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pachidendron:

There are approximately 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: P. africanum · P. angustifolium · P. ferox · P. principis · P. pseudoafricanum · P. pseudoferox · P. supralaeve

Members of the genus Notholirion:

There are approximately 8 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: N. bulbuliferum · N. campanulatum · N. hyacinthinum · N. koeiei · N. macrophyllum · N. roseum · N. thompsonianum · N. thomsonianum

Bibliography

• Wang Fa-tsuan & Tang Tsin, eds. 1978; 1980. Liliaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 15: 1--280; 14: 1--308.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 1, 2006.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15579249
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:539666-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 877778

Footnotes:

1. 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.