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Asphodelaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Not all taxonomists recognize Asphodelaceae as a family and the circumscription of the family has varied over time.
The APG II system, of 2003, does not recognize this family, but allows it to be segregated from the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, as an optional segregate. In so far as APG II accepts this family it is placed in the order Asparagales, in the clade monocots. This is a slight change from the APG system, of 1998, which did accept such a family.
According to the AP-website, the family now includes over a dozen genera, totalling some eight hundred species including the familiar genus Aloe (also spelled Aloë). Genera in the Asphodelaceae in Africa, the Mediterranean basin and Central Asia, with one genus (Bulbinella) present in New Zealand. The greatest diversity occurs in South Africa.
External links :
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- Asphodelaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 9th March 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL, Texas
- A listing of genera
- Aloe
- Asphodeline
- Asphodelus
- Bulbine
- Bulbinella
- Eremurus
- Gasteria
- Haworthia
- Jodrellia
- Kniphofia
- Lomatophyllum
- Poellnitzia
- Simethis
- Trachyandra
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