Hypoxidaceae
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| Hypoxidaceae | |
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| Hypoxis hemerocallidea | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Hypoxidaceae R.Br. |
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Hypoxidaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.[1]
The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG III system of 2009 (unchanged from the 1998 and 2003versions) does recognize this family. The family consists of probably over half-a-dozen genera totalling some one hundred to two hundred species.
The members of the family are small to medium herbs, with grass-like leaves and an invisible stem, modified into a corm or a rhizome. The flowers are born on leafless shoots, also called scapes. The flowers are trimerous, radially symmetric. The ovary is inferior, developing into a capsule or a berry.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hypoxidaceae |
- Hypoxidaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 27 April 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL, Texas
- Hypoxidaceae in West African plants - A Photo Guide.
