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The genus is placed in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Brodiaeoideae, in the latest Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification ( 2009 ).
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Blandfordia is the only genus in the family Blandfordiaceae, with four species distributed in eastern Australia.
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The most conspicuous genus in the family is Aloe.
Agapanthus, native to South Africa, is the sole genus of the subfamily.
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Wormwood, a genus that includes the sagebrush, is used as a source of flavoring for absinthe, a bitter classical liquor of European origin.
The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Allium.
Allieae contains only one genus Allium ( Milula is merged with Allium in the latest systems ).
The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".
The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.
Within the genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.
Ardipithecus is a fossil hominoid, described by its discoverers as a very early hominin genus.
Albertosaurus (; meaning " Alberta lizard ") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.
The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.
In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.
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The pacas ( genus Cuniculus ) are placed by some authorities ( Woods, 1993 ; McKenna and Bell, 1997 ) in the Dasyproctidae, but molecular studies have demonstrated that they do not form a monophyletic group ( Rowe and Honeycutt, 2002 ).
At the time both South African and South American plants were placed in the same genus ; subsequently they were separated into two different genera.
In early taxonomic treatments, the current members of the Branchiopoda were all placed in a single genus, Monoculus.
These classifications are arbitrary, and most taxonomies over the twentieth century have placed the chipmunks in a single genus.
This genus was traditionally placed in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae, but recent reviews of phylogenetic research have placed it in the much enlarged family Plantaginaceae.
It seems likely that they will be placed into a new genus or family in the next revision of the taxonomy of this group.
Due to its outward similarity to the Razorbill ( apart from flightlessness and size ), the Great Auk was often placed in the genus Alca, following Linnaeus.
The species was not placed in its own genus, Pinguinus, until 1791.
The gray whale is traditionally placed as the only living species in its genus and family.
John Edward Gray placed it in its own genus in 1865, naming it in honour of zoologist Daniel Eschricht.
The brown hyena has sometimes been placed in a separate genus Parahyaena, or even included in the otherwise fossil genus Pachycrocuta, but recent sources have tended to place it in Hyaena.
The genus Protea, and hence P. cynaroides, is placed under the tribe Proteae.
Kumquats or cumquats are a group of small fruit-bearing trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, either forming the genus Fortunella, or placed within Citrus sensu lato.
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In it Louis placed the fossil in Broom's Australopithecinae family, creating a new genus for it, Zinjanthropus, species boisei.
There is currently no consensus in the scientific community whether P. aethiopicus, P. boisei and P. robustus should be placed into a distinct genus, Paranthropus, which is believed to have evolved from the ancestral Australopithecus line.
Earlier descriptions of the species placed it within the genus Columba, but it was transferred to a monotypic genus due to the greater length of the tail and wings.
It has sometimes been placed in the genus Diopecephalus because Harry Govier Seeley based this genus partly on the P. longicollum material.
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He placed P. sternbergi into the genus named by Miller, Geosternbergia, along with the Pierre Shale skull specimen which Bennett had previously considered to be a large male P. longiceps.
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Along with the other genus in the Boryaceae family, Alania, these xerophytic plants are native to Australia.
The family includes a single genus, Ixiolirion, with four species distributed from Egypt to central Asia.
The two species of Doryanthes, the only genus of the family, are huge rosette-forming herbs that are a conspicuous element of the flora in the vicinity of Sydney, Australia, being hard not to notice when in flower.
The family consists of a single genus Xeronema with two species, one found only on the Poor Knights islands in New Zealand and the other in New Caledonia.
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.
The family Haliotidae contains only one genus, Haliotis.
Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants ( Alnus ) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae ).
These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.
Although the family ( Amaranthaceae ) is distinctive, the genus has few distinguishing characters among the 70 species included.
Ailanthus (; derived from ailanto, an Ambonese word probably meaning " tree of the gods " or " tree of heaven ") is a genus of trees belonging to the family Simaroubaceae, in the order Sapindales ( formerly Rutales or Geraniales ).
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