Asphodelaceae
Yellow Asphodel (Asphodeline lutea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Asphodelaceae Juss. 1789
genera
see text

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 III system of 2009 considers these plants to be part of the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, but a companion paper does provide a subfamily Asphodeloideae within that family.^[1] Previous versions of APG did consider it to be a separate family (optionally, in the case of APG II).

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.

[edit] A listing of genera

• Aloe
• Asphodeline
• Asphodelus
• Bulbine
• Bulbinella
• Eremurus
• Gasteria
• Haworthia
• Jodrellia
• Kniphofia
• Lomatophyllum
• Poellnitzia
• Simethis
• Trachyandra

[edit] References

1. ^ Chase, M. W.; Reveal, J. L., Fay, M. F. (August 2009), "A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (The Linnean Society of London) 161 (2): 132–136, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x 

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Asphodelaceae

• 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