Everything about Amaryllidaceae totally explained
Amaryllidaceae is the
botanical name of a family of
flowering plants. The plants are
herbaceous perennials that grow from
bulbs, often with showy flowers. It consists of about sixty
genera (see
list of genera), with over eight hundred
species. Several genera are commonly grown in gardens, including:
- Amaryllis, the Belladonna Lily or Naked Lady
- Caliphruria, Amazon lily
- Clivia, the Kaffir lily
- Crinum, Swamp Lily
- Eucharis, Amazon Lily
- Galanthus, Snowdrop
- Habranthus, Rain lily
- Hippeastrum, commonly sold as Amaryllis or Christmas Amaryllis.
- Hymenocallis, Peruvian Daffodil, Spider Lily
- Leucojum, Snowflake
- Lycoris, Spider Lily or Hurricane Flower
- Narcissus, Daffodil, Jonquil, and Narcissus
- Pancratium, Sea Daffodil
- Sprekelia, Jacobean lily
- Sternbergia, Winter daffodil
- Zephyranthes, Rain lily, Zephyr lily
Amaryllidaceae has been recognized, with varying circumscriptions, by most classification systems of the 20th Century, although the
Cronquist system included it within a very broadly defined
Liliaceae. The two families have traditionally been separated by including species with inferior ovaries in Amaryllidaceae and those with superior ovaries in Liliaceae. The
APG II system (2003) includes Amaryllidaceae in
Alliaceae but allows for its optional recognition, in the order
Asparagales, in the
monocots clade. The
APG system, of 1998, accepted this as a separate family.
Fay and Chase (1996) include
Agapanthus in Amaryllidaceae (as subfamily Agapanthoideae) but the APG II system includes
Agapanthus in Alliaceae, with optional recognition in its own family as
Agapanthaceae.
Agapanthus differs from other Amaryllidaceae in having superior ovaries.
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