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Uvulariaceae
Uvulariaceae is a family of flowering plants. While seldom recognised, the family is accepted by the Dahlgren system, which places it in order Liliales, superorder Lilianae, and the subclass Liliidae monocotyledonsof class Magnoliopsida angiosperms The APG II system places the genus ''Uvularia'' in family Colchicaceae, which is assigned to order Liliales in the clade monocots. Molecular studies have shown that Uvulariaceae is polyphyletic, meaning that the genera placed in the family have closer relationships with other plants than with each other. The family have been split and the genera ''Disporum'', ''Kuntheria'', ''Schelhammera'', ''Tripladenia'' and ''Uvularia'' are now placed in the autumn crocus family (Colchicaceae), while ''Clintonia'', ''Medeola'', ''Prosartes'', ''Scoliopus'' and '' Streptopus'' are placed in the lily family (Liliaceae). The genus '' Kreysigia'' has a somewhat troublesome taxonomic history and is either synonymous to ''Tripladenia'' or ''Schelhammera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliales
Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web system, within the lilioid monocots. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae. The APG III system (2009) places this order in the monocot clade. In APG III, the family Luzuriagaceae is combined with the family Alstroemeriaceae and the family Petermanniaceae is recognized. Both the order Lililiales and the family Liliaceae have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another. Previous members of this order, which at one stage included most monocots with conspicuous tepals and lacking starch in the endosperm are now distributed over three orders, Liliales, Dioscoreales and Asparagales, using predominantly molecular phylogenetics. The newly delimited Liliales is monophyletic, with ten families. Well known plants from the order include ''Lilium'' (lily), tulip, the North American wildflower ''Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dahlgren System
One of the modern systems of plant taxonomy, the Dahlgren system was published by monocot specialist Rolf Dahlgren in 1975 and revised in 1977, and 1980. However, he is best known for his two treatises on monocotyledons in 1982 and revised in 1985. His wife Gertrud Dahlgren continued the work after his death. Dahlgren ranked the dicotyledons and monocotyledons as subclasses of the class of flowering plants (angiosperms) and further divided them into superorders. Originally (1975) he used the suffix ''-anae'', as did Cronquist, to designate these, but in 1980 changed this to ''-florae'' in accordance with Thorne. In the 1989 revision, published by his wife, the alternate names Magnoliidae and Liliidae were dropped in favour of Dicotyledon and Monocotyledon, and the suffix ''-florae'' reverted to ''-anae'' (''e.g.'' Alismatanae for Alismatiflorae). Reveal provides an extensive listing of Dahlgren's classification. (Note the synonyms, both nomenclatural and taxonomic, for ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colchicaceae
Colchicaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes 15 genera with a total of about 285 known species according to Christenhusz and Byng in 2016. Description The family is characterized by the presence of colchicine. Taxonomy The APG III system, of 2009 (unchanged from the APG systems, of 1998 and 2003), recognizes this family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. It is a group of herbaceous perennials with rhizomes or corms. The Dahlgren system and the Thorne system (1992) also recognized this family, and placed it in order Liliales in superorder Lilianae in subclass Liliidae (monocotyledons) of class Magnoliopsida (angiosperms). Genera The following is an alphabetic list of genera usually included in this family : The phylogenetic classification of Vinnersten & Manning circumscribes the family as follows: * tribe Burchardieae ** ''Burchardia'' R.Br. * tribe Uvularieae ** ''Disporum'' Salisb. (excluding the North American species to the genus ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellwort
''Uvularia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Colchicaceae, which is closely related to the lily family (Liliaceae). They are commonly called bellworts, bellflowers or merrybells. The genus name is derived from the Latin ''ūvula'' meaning "little grape," likely because of the way the flowers hang downward. For the same reason ''Uvularia'' may also refer to the similarly derived palatine uvula, which hangs down from the soft palate in the mouth. The plants are often found growing on wooded slopes or in ravines and they spread by stolons, or stoloniferous rhizomes. The plants are usually in height and bear one or two flowers per stem in April and May, that hang downward from the axils of the leaves. Species There are five species of ''Uvularia''. All are exclusively native (endemic) to North America. They grow from northern Florida to Nova Scotia west to Manitoba and south to Texas. : ''Uvularia floridana'' Chapm. – Florida bellwort - Florida, FL Georgia (U.S. sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuntheria
''Kuntheria'' is a plant genus related to ''Schelhammera''. It contains one species, ''Kuntheria pedunculata'' (F.Muell.) Conran & Clifford, endemic to Queensland, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ....Conran, John Godfrey & Clifford, Harold Trevor. 1987. Flora of Australia 45: 491, ''Kuntheria'' References Colchicaceae Colchicaceae genera Monotypic Liliales genera Flora of Queensland {{Liliales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliaceae
The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a fair amount of morphological diversity despite genetic similarity. Common characteristics include large flowers with parts arranged in threes: with six colored or patterned petaloid tepals (undifferentiated petals and sepals) arranged in two whorls, six stamens and a superior ovary. The leaves are linear in shape, with their veins usually arranged parallel to the edges, single and arranged alternating on the stem, or in a rosette at the base. Most species are grown from bulbs, although some have rhizomes. First described in 1789, the lily family became a paraphyletic "catch-all" (wastebasket) group of lilioid monocots that did not fit into other families and included a great number of genera now included in other families and in some cases in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streptopus
''Streptopus'' is a Eurasian and North American genus of flowering plants in the lily family, found primarily in colder and temperate regions. Members of the genus are often referred to as twistedstalk. It is one of the shade-loving genera of the lily family. ''Streptopus'' spp. are perennial herbs spreading by means of underground rhizomes. They generally produce flowers only one or two at a time, these being often small and hidden beneath the leaves and white, greenish-yellow or rose in colour. Etymology The genus name is a compound of the Greek adjective στρεπτός (''streptos'') "twisted" and the noun πούς (''pous'') "foot" in reference to the twisted or geniculate peduncle, as referenced in the English name given above. Species *'' Streptopus amplexifolius'' - central + southern Europe, Russian Far East, Canada including Arctic territories, Greenland, United States (Alaska, Great Lakes + mountains) *'' Streptopus chatterjeeanus'' - Sikkim *'' Streptopus koreanu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scoliopus
''Scoliopus'', or fetid adderstongue, is a genus of plant within the family Liliaceae consisting of two species, '' Scoliopus bigelovii'' and '' S. hallii.'' Both are found in deep shaded forests, primarily in the coastal counties of the western United States from central California to northern Oregon. The name "''Scoliopus''" derives from the Greek words ''skolios'' and ''pous'', meaning curved foot, a reference to the shape of the pedicel. Taxonomists believe that ''Scoliopus'' is closely related to ''Calochortus'', ''Prosartes'', '' Streptopus'' and '' Tricyrtis'', which all have creeping rhizomes as well as styles that divide at the tip. Description ''Scoliopus'' has two mottled leaves at its base and a long pedicel that, over time, bends and twists so that the fruit touches the ground. The flowers, which bloom in the late winter and early spring, are pale green or yellow when fresh, lined with narrow purple or dark brown veins, with wide, spreading sepals and narrower petals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prosartes
''Prosartes'', the fairybells, is a North American genus of flowering plants in the lily family. For several decades plants of this genus were considered part of the otherwise Asian genus ''Disporum''. Studies of morphology and cytology, as well as genetic analysis, show these North American plants to be different from the Asian species, and in 1995 the two groups began to be recognized as distinct genera. ''Prosartes'' included five species until 2010, when a sixth, ''Prosartes parvifolia'', long considered a variant of ''Prosartes hookeri'', or perhaps a hybrid, was acknowledged as a distinct species.Mesler, M., et al. (2010). A resurrection for Siskiyou Bells, ''Prosartes parvifolia'' (Liliaceae), a rare Siskiyou Mountains endemic. ''Madroño'' 57:2 129-35. These plants are rhizomatous herbs with bell-like pendent (hanging) flowers. ;Species *''Prosartes hookeri'' - drops of gold - California and Pacific Northwest, plus isolated populations in Black Hills and in the Upper P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medeola
''Medeola virginiana'', known as Indian cucumber, cucumber root, or Indian cucumber-root, is an eastern North American plant species in the lily family, Liliaceae. It is the only currently recognized plant species in the genus ''Medeola''. It grows in the understory of forests. The plant bears edible rhizomes that have a mild cucumber-like flavor. Description ''Medeola virginiana'' shoots consist of two tiers of whorled leaves. The lower tier typically bears between five and nine (occasionally up to 12) lance shaped leaves. The upper tier bears three to five ovate leaves. The leaves have an entire (smooth) margin. Some individuals lack a second tier of whorled leaves. The second tier is produced when the plant flowers. When two-tiered, plants grow to high. The flowers have yellowish green tepals and appear in late spring. The fruit is a dark blue to purple, inedible berry above the top tier of leaves. Indian cucumber-root shoots arise each spring from an overwintering tuberlike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clintonia
''Clintonia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the lily family Liliaceae. Plants of the genus are distributed across the temperate regions of North America and eastern Asia, in the mesic understory of deciduous or coniferous forests. The genus, first described by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1818, was named for DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828), a naturalist and politician from the U.S. state of New York. For this reason, plants of the genus are commonly known as Clinton's lily. The common name bluebead (and by extension bluebead lily) refer to the distinctive fruit of members of the genus. Since fruit color varies somewhat across species, the common name bead lily is used as well. Description The genus ''Clintonia'' is morphologically diverse. Species are herbaceous perennial plants growing from rhizomatous underground stems with thin, fibrous roots. They grow from 1.5 to 8 dm tall. They have 2 to 6 basal leaves arising from the rhizome crown, the basal leaves are ses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripladenia
''Tripladenia'' is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Colchicaceae. The sole species is ''Tripladenia cunninghamii'' which is native to New South Wales and Queensland in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... References Colchicaceae genera Monotypic Liliales genera Flora of Queensland Flora of New South Wales Monocots of Australia Colchicaceae {{Australia-plant-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
