The family also has important ornamentals, mainly from the dominant genus Allium, but also including genera such as Ipheion.

The APG III system ( 2009 ) differs only in that the Limnocharitaceae are combined with the Alismataceae ; it was also suggested that the genus Maundia ( of the Juncaginaceae ) could be separated into a monogeneric family, Maundiaceae, but the authors noted that more study was necessary before Maundiaceae could be recognized.

Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera.

The genus also contains several well-known ornamental plants, such as Amaranthus caudatus ( love-lies-bleeding ), a native of India and a vigorous, hardy annual with dark purplish flowers crowded in handsome drooping spikes.

Aloe, also Aloë, is a genus containing about 500 species of flowering succulent plants.

Antibacterials can also affect the vaginal flora, and may lead to overgrowth of yeast species of the genus Candida in the vulvo-vaginal area.

Zebrafish are also closely related to the genus Devario, as demonstrated by a phylogenetic tree of close species.

Coho and Chinook ( also known as " king ") salmon, and steelhead, all of the genus Oncorhynchus, are ocean fish that migrate up the rivers at the end of their life cycles to spawn.

The genus is native to Europe, Asia and Africa, and is also naturalised in North America.

" Chipmunks have also been referred to as " striped squirrels ," " chippers ," " munks ," " timber tigers ," or " ground squirrels ," although the name " ground squirrel " usually refers to other squirrels, such as those of the genus Spermophilus.

Chagas was also the first to unknowingly discover and illustrate the parasitic fungal genus Pneumocystis, later infamously linked to PCP ( Pneumocystis pneumonia in AIDS victims ).

The term digitalis is also used for drug preparations that contain cardiac glycosides, particularly one called digoxin, extracted from various plants of this genus.

The order also includes some edible fruits, including kiwi fruit ( Actinidia deliciosa ), persimmon ( genus Diospyros ), blueberry, huckleberry and cranberry, Brazil nut, and Mamey sapote.

* Echidna, junior synonym for Bitis, a genus of African vipers ( also Echidne )

From these early species the Australopithecines arose around diverged into robust ( also called Paranthropus ) and gracile branches, one of which ( possibly A. garhi ) probably went on to become ancestors of the genus Homo.

The Polygalaceae is fairly well researched among plant families, in part due to the large diversity of the genus Polygala, and also due to members of the family, like the Fabaceae, being food plants for various Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species.

Pinguinus alfrednewtoni was a larger and also flightless member of the genus Pinguinus that lived during the Early Pliocene.

The genus Mesocricetus also forms a clade.

It may also be distinguished from other kumquats by its round leaves that make this species unique within the genus.

Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils.

Mentha ( also known as Mint, from Greek míntha, Linear B mi-ta ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae ( mint family ).

The family also includes Vanilla ( the genus of the vanilla plant ), Orchis ( type genus ), and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya.

Proboscideans from the Miocene also included Stegolophodon, an early genus of the disputed family Stegodontidae ; the diverse family of Gomphotheriidae or " shovel tuskers ", such as Platybelodon and Amebelodon ; and the Mammutidae, or mastodons.

The family includes a single genus, Ixiolirion, with four species distributed from Egypt to central Asia.

The genus Allium includes some of the most widely used edible plants, such as onion and shallot ( varieties of Allium cepa ), garlic ( A. sativum and A. scordoprasum ), leek ( Allium ampeloprasum var.

Wormwood, a genus that includes the sagebrush, is used as a source of flavoring for absinthe, a bitter classical liquor of European origin.

The bongo belongs to the genus Tragelaphus, which includes the sitatunga ( Tragelaphus spekeii ), the nyala ( Tragelaphus angasii ), the bushbuck ( Tragelaphus scriptus ), the mountain nyala ( Tragelaphus buxtoni ), the Lesser Kudu ( Tragelaphus imberbis ) and the greater kudu ( Tragelaphus strepsiceros ).

The Bacillus-specific study with the most diversity covered is by Xu and Cote ' using 16S and the ITS region, where they divide the genus into 10 groups, which includes the nested genera Paenibacillus, Brevibacillus, Geobacillus, Marinibacillus and Virgibacillus.

It is a member of the subgenus Rhinella of the genus Bufo, which includes many different true toad species found throughout Central and South America.

Chipmunks may be classified either as a single genus, Tamias, or as three genera: Tamias, which includes the eastern chipmunk ; Eutamias, which includes the Siberian chipmunk ; and Neotamias, which includes the 23 remaining, mostly western, species.

The genus Candida includes about 150 different species ; however, only a few are known to cause human infections.

This genus includes the species bovine stool associated circular virus and chimpanzee stool associated circular virus.

* Order Perissodactyla ( In addition to Equidae, Perissodactyla includes four species of tapir in a single genus, as well as five living species ( belonging to four genera ) of rhinoceros.

# a genus ( or family ): A pre-defined term that includes the species defined as a subtype.

The genus includes annual or short-lived herbaceous perennial plants, and suffruticose perennials, subshrubs or small shrubs.

The genus includes the widespread common pawpaw Asimina triloba, which bears the largest edible fruit indigenous to the continent.

Loris is one genus in this subfamily and includes the slender lorises, while Nycticebus is the genus for the slow lorises.

This genus includes the largest extant mosquitoes, the larvae of which prey on the larvae of other mosquitoes.

Cannabis (; Cán-na-bis ) is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative varieties, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis.

The genus is native to the Northern Hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in Asia and the Americas.

Implicitly it includes a system for naming genera, since the first part of the name of the species is a genus name.

The genus Allium, which includes onions and garlic as well as shallots, is now classified in the plant family Amaryllidaceae, but was formerly considered to belong to the separate family Alliaceae.