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Asparagales is the name of an order of plants, used in modern classification systems such as the APG III system ( which is used throughout this article ).
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Phytomelan is found in most families of the Asparagales ( although not in Orchidaceae, thought to be a sister to the rest of the group ).
From an economic point of view, the order Asparagales is second in importance within the monocots to the order Poales ( which includes grasses and cereals ).
Phytomelan is not unique to Asparagales ( i. e. it is not a synapomorphy ) but it is common within the order and rare outside it.
Asparagales have a method of secondary thickening which is otherwise only found inDioscorea ( in the order Disoscoreales ).
Allioideae is the botanical name of a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales.
The Orchidaceae is currently placed in the order Asparagales by the APG III system of 2009.
Agavoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales.
The order is not recognized in the APG II system, which assigns the orchids to order Asparagales.
Asphodelus ramosus, also known as Branched asphodel, is a perennial herb in the Asparagales order.
The Iris family or Iridaceae is a family of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants included in the monocot order Asparagales, taking its name from the genus Iris.
This type of corolla, a feature of all families of Asparagales as well as the related order Liliales, distinguishes them from other monocots, such as grasses, palms or reeds, in which the perianth is either reduced or with the members of one or both of the whorls firm-textured and dry and often brown or green.
The character that sets Iridaceae apart from other plants of the Asparagales or from the Liliales, is the male part of the flower, the androecium, which has three stamens — in most related families there are six.
Another character that distinguish Iridaceae from most other members of the Asparagales is its inferior ovary, the ovary being superior in most families, with the exception of Orchidaceae and Amaryllidaceae.
Such a corolla differentiates Liliales and Asparagales from other monocots, where the number or size of the tepals are reduced, or where at least one whorl is papyraceous ( firm and dry like a papyrus ), and usually green or brown.
The family is in the monocot order Asparagales.
This character is shared with members of the Agavoideae and Xanthorrhoeoideae among other members of the Asparagales.
It is part of the family Amaryllidaceae, in order Asparagales.
Agapanthoideae is a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales.
Asphodeloideae is a subfamily of the monocot family Xanthorrhoeaceae in the order Asparagales.
This character, however, is also found in other taxa in the Asparagales, including Agavaceae, Iridaceae, and Xanthorrhoeoideae.
It is confined to Asparagales among the monocots and is believed to have evolved independently in most families.
Asparagales and name
Hemerocallidoideae is the botanical name of a subfamily of flowering plants, part of the family Xanthorrhoeaceae sensu lato in the monocot order Asparagales according to the APG system of 2009.
Xanthorrhoeaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants in the order Asparagales.
Xeronemataceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.
Asparagales and order
No single morphological character appears to be diagnostic of the order Asparagales.
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group in 1998 and 2003 ( APG and APG II, respectively ) system of flowering plant classification organizes flowering plants into a " selected number of monophyletic suprafamilial groups " and placed Iridaceae in the order Asparagales, which was part of a clade called " Non Commelinoid Monocots ".
Several studies based on morphology and DNA sequence information have shown that the Iridaceae are a monophyletic group included in the order Asparagales.
When the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group published the APG II system in 2003, Themidaceae was accepted as an optional family for those who wanted to circumscribe families narrowly in the order Asparagales.
All these families are in the order Asparagales.
Brodiaeoideae are a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales.
The Xanthorrhoeaceae are monocots, part of order Asparagales.
Asparagales and plants
It used a much wider circumscription ( many of the plants here are assigned to Asparagales and Dioscoreales by APG II ):
This category is for families of plants that the APG III system assigns to the order Asparagales ( in the clade monocots ).
Dichelostemma is a genus of seven species of flowering plants in the order Asparagales.
Asparagales and classification
Morphologically the subfamily is characterised by having 6 tepals and 6 stamens with a superior ovary, a characteristic which placed them within the older order of Liliales in many older classification systems, such as the Cronquist system, but they now separate from them within the Asparagales order.
Asparagales and APG
The families of the Asparagales, as set out in the APG III system, are briefly surveyed below.
In the first version of APG ( 1998-2003 ) many lilioid families and genera were placed in the order Asparagales, a term derived from Dahlgren and the largest monocot order.
With further work it was evident that larger clades than the 26 families in the 1998 APG ( denoted Asparagales sensu APG ( 1998 )) could be identified.
In this APG II-system, the family Orchidaceae is included in the order Asparagales.
Asparagales and which
It seems that when the Asparagales first diverged they developed simultaneous microsporogenesis, which the ' lower ' Asparagale families retain.
His major contribution was to consider the Liliaceae as two families, the true Liliaceae and the Hyacinthaceae which actually belonged to separate orders ( Liliales and Asparagales ).
Of the Asparagales, the largest family are the Asparagaceae, which contain the Scilloideae.
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