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Agapanthus L'Hér. |
Agapanthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN and if the plant is a Cultigen, the The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group The sole included genus, and the one from which the family takes its name, is Agapanthus. Agapanthus (" Lily of the Nile " is a genus of flower plants with six to ten species depending on how the different species are classified This genus has been variously included in Amaryllidaceae (e. Amaryllidaceae is the Botanical name of a family of Flowering plants. g. , Fay & Chase 1996), Alliaceae (e. Alliaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial Flowering plants. g. , the Dahlgren system and APG II system), or Liliaceae (e. One of the modern systems of plant taxonomy, the Dahlgren system was published by monocot specialist Rolf Dahlgren. The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of Monocotyledons in the order Liliales. g. , in the Cronquist system, which unlike most classification systems included both Alliaceae and Amaryllidaceae in a broadly defined Liliaceae). A system of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or Angiosperms) Agapanthus shares characters with genera included in both Alliaceae and Amaryllidaceae, but lacks the compounds that give alliaceous plants their characteristic onion or garlic odor, and has superior ovaries, unlike the usually inferior ovaries of Amaryllidaceae.
Fay & Chase (1996) recommend the recognition of Agapanthus as a subfamily, Agapanthoideae, in Amaryllidaceae. The APG II system (2003) prefers the inclusion of both Amaryllidaceae and Agapanthaceae in Alliaceae but allows for the optional separation of the three families, placing them in the order Asparagales, in the monocots clade. Alliaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial Flowering plants. Asparagales is an order of Flowering plants The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of Flowering plants (angiosperms that are traditionally recognised the other being Dicotyledons
References
- Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase. 1996. Resurrection of Themidaceae for the Brodiaea alliance, and recircumscription of Alliaceae, Amaryllidaceae and Agapanthoideae. Taxon 45: 441-451 (abstract)
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