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Scilloideae

Index Scilloideae

Scilloideae (named after the genus Scilla, "squill") is a subfamily of bulbous plants within the family Asparagaceae. [1]

159 relations: Adnation, Adolf Engler, Aestivation (botany), Africa, Agavoideae, Albuca, Alrawia, Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, Ant, APG II system, APG III system, APG system, Aphyllanthes, Apomixis, Arabian Peninsula, Aril, Asparagaceae, Asparagales, Asparagoideae, August Batsch, × Chionoscilla, Barnardia, Bee, Bellevalia, Binomial nomenclature, Biological dispersal, Bird, Bowiea, Brimeura, Brodiaeoideae, Bufadienolide, Bulb, Camassia, Cardenolide, Carl Linnaeus, Central Asia, China, Chionodoxa, Chlorogalum, Chromosome, Clade, Cladogram, Connation, Cronquist system, Dahlgren system, Daubenya, Dehiscence (botany), Dipcadi, Drimia, ..., Drimia indica, Drimia maritima, Drimiopsis, Edema, Edward James Salisbury, Elaiosome, Endosperm, Eucomis, Europe, Far East, Fessia, Floral symmetry, Fly, France, Fruit, Fusifilum, Galtonia, Genus, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Greece, Gynoecium, Hermaphrodite, Homoisoflavonoid, Huber, Hyacinth (plant), Hyacinthella, Hyacinthoides, India, Insect, International Plant Names Index, Italy, Japan, John Gilbert Baker, Karl Fritsch, Karyotype, Korea, Lachenalia, Ledebouria, Ledebouria revoluta, Leopoldia, Leopoldia comosa, Liliaceae, Liliales, Lilioid monocots, Locule, Lomandroideae, Massonia, Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean Sea, Merwilla, Micrometre, Middle East, Middle Kingdom of Egypt, Molecular phylogenetics, Monophyly, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Moth, Mucilage, Muscari, Namophila, Nectar, Nolinoideae, Ornithogalum, Ornithogalum pyrenaicum, Ornithogalum saundersiae, Ornithogalum thyrsoides, Ovary (botany), Oziroe, Papyrus, Peduncle (botany), Perianth, Petal, Plant reproduction, Pollen, Pollination, Prospero (plant), Pseudogaltonia, Pseudomuscari, Pseudoprospero, Puschkinia, Resnova, Rosette (botany), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Sahara, Saponin, Scape (botany), Schizocarphus, Scilla, Scilla bifolia, Scilliroside, Seed, Sensu, South Africa, South America, Spetaea, Stamen, Stephan Endlicher, Sub-Saharan Africa, Subfamily, Temperate climate, Tepal, Tropics, Type genus, Vegetative reproduction, Veltheimia, Wasp, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Zagrosia. Expand index (109 more) »

Adnation

Adnation in Angiosperms is the fusion of two or more whorls of a flower, e.g. stamens to petals".

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Adolf Engler

Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist.

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Aestivation (botany)

Aestivation or estivation refers to the positional arrangement of the parts of a flower within a flower bud before it has opened.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Agavoideae

Agavoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales.

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Albuca

Albuca is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Alrawia

Alrawia is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Angiosperm Phylogeny Group

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to an informal international group of systematic botanists who collaborate to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants (angiosperms) that reflects new knowledge about plant relationships discovered through phylogenetic studies.

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Angiosperm Phylogeny Website

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (or APweb) is a well-known website dedicated to research on angiosperm phylogeny and taxonomy.

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Ant

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.

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APG II system

The APG II system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II system) of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

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APG III system

The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG).

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APG system

The APG system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system) of plant classification is the first version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy.

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Aphyllanthes

Aphyllanthes is a genus of flowering plants with only one species, Aphyllanthes monspeliensis, endemic to the western Mediterranean region.

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Apomixis

In botany, apomixis was defined by Hans Winkler as replacement of the normal sexual reproduction by asexual reproduction, without fertilization.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, ‘Arabian island’ or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, ‘Island of the Arabs’), is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate.

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Aril

An aril (pronounced), also called an arillus, is a specialized outgrowth from a seed that partly or completely covers the seed.

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Asparagaceae

Asparagaceae is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.

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Asparagales

Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) is an order of plants in modern classification systems such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Web.

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Asparagoideae

Asparagoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales, according to the APG III system of 2009.

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August Batsch

August Johann Georg Karl Batsch (28 October 1761 – 29 September 1802) was a German naturalist.

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× Chionoscilla

× Chionoscilla is the genus name used for hybrids between the two closely related genera Chionodoxa and Scilla.

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Barnardia

Barnardia is a small genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Bee

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax.

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Bellevalia

Bellevalia is a genus of plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Binomial nomenclature

Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Biological dispersal

Biological dispersal refers to both the movement of individuals (animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.) from their birth site to their breeding site ('natal dispersal'), as well as the movement from one breeding site to another ('breeding dispersal').

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bowiea

Bowiea is a bulbous genus of perennial, succulent plants which thrive in dry and desert regions of eastern and southern Africa.

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Brimeura

Brimeura is a genus of bulb-forming, monocotyledonous perennial plants.

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Brodiaeoideae

Brodiaeoideae are a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales.

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Bufadienolide

Bufadienolide is a chemical compound with steroid structure.

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Bulb

In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy.

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Camassia

Camassia is a genus of plants in the asparagus family native to Canada and the United States.

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Cardenolide

Cardenolide is a type of steroid.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chionodoxa

Chionodoxa, known as glory-of-the-snow, is a small genus of bulbous perennial flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, often included in Scilla.

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Chlorogalum

The common names soap plant, soaproot and amole refer to the genus Chlorogalum.

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Chromosome

A chromosome (from Ancient Greek: χρωμόσωμα, chromosoma, chroma means colour, soma means body) is a DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material (genome) of an organism.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Connation

Connation in plants is the developmental fusion of organs of the same type, for example, petals to one another to form a tubular corolla.

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Cronquist system

The Cronquist system is a taxonomic classification system of flowering plants.

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Dahlgren system

One of the modern systems of plant taxonomy, the Dahlgren system was published by monocot specialist Rolf Dahlgren in 1975 and revised in 1977, and 1980.

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Daubenya

Daubenya is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Dehiscence (botany)

Dehiscence is the splitting along a built-in line of weakness in a plant structure in order to release its contents, and is common among fruits, anthers and sporangia.

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Dipcadi

Dipcadi is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Drimia

Drimia is a genus of flowering plants.

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Drimia indica

Drimia indica is a species of flowering plant found from South Asia to South Africa.

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Drimia maritima

Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Drimiopsis

Drimiopsis is a genus of African bulbous perennial herbs in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Edema

Edema, also spelled oedema or œdema, is an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the interstitium, located beneath the skin and in the cavities of the body, which can cause severe pain.

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Edward James Salisbury

Sir Edward James Salisbury CBE FRS (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist and ecologist.

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Elaiosome

Elaiosomes (Greek élaion "oil" and sóma "body") are fleshy structures that are attached to the seeds of many plant species.

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Endosperm

The endosperm is the tissue produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants following fertilization.

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Eucomis

Eucomis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to southern Africa.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Far East

The Far East is a geographical term in English that usually refers to East Asia (including Northeast Asia), the Russian Far East (part of North Asia), and Southeast Asia.

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Fessia

Fessia is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Floral symmetry

Floral symmetry describes whether, and how, a flower, in particular its perianth, can be divided into two or more identical or mirror-image parts.

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Fly

True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings".

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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Fusifilum

Fusifilum is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Galtonia

Galtonia is a genus of plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Gilbert Thomas Burnett

Gilbert Thomas Burnett (15 April 1800 – 27 July 1835) was a British botanist.

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Greece

No description.

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Hermaphrodite

In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has complete or partial reproductive organs and produces gametes normally associated with both male and female sexes.

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Homoisoflavonoid

Homoisoflavonoids (3-benzylidenechroman-4-ones) are a type of phenolic compounds occurring naturally in plants.

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Huber

Huber is a surname of German language origin.

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Hyacinth (plant)

Hyacinthus is a small genus of bulbous, fragrant flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Hyacinthella

Hyacinthella is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Hyacinthoides

Hyacinthoides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, known as bluebells.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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International Plant Names Index

The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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John Gilbert Baker

John Gilbert Baker FRS (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an English botanist.

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Karl Fritsch

Karl Fritsch (24 February 1864 – 17 January 1934) was an Austrian botanist.

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Karyotype

A karyotype is the number and appearance of chromosomes in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Lachenalia

Lachenalia is a genus of bulbs in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, which are usually found in Namibia and South Africa.

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Ledebouria

Ledebouria is a genus of African bulbous perennial herbs in the Asparagus family, Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Ledebouria revoluta

Ledebouria revoluta, the south Indian squill, is a flowering plant species in the genus Ledebouria found in Southern Africa and India.

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Leopoldia

Leopoldia is a genus of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Leopoldia comosa

Leopoldia comosa (syn. Muscari comosum) is a perennial bulbous plant.

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Liliaceae

The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of fifteen genera and about 705 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016) of flowering plants within the order Liliales.

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Liliales

Liliales (older name: Lilia) is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web system, within the lilioid monocots.

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Lilioid monocots

Lilioid monocots (lilioids, liliid monocots, petaloid monocots, petaloid lilioid monocots) is an informal name used for a grade (grouping of taxa with common characteristics) of five monocot orders (Petrosaviales, Dioscoreales, Pandanales, Liliales and Asparagales) in which the majority of species have flowers with relatively large, coloured tepals.

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Locule

A locule (plural locules) or loculus (plural loculi) (meaning "little place" in Latin) is a small cavity or compartment within an organ or part of an organism (animal, plant, or fungus).

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Lomandroideae

Lomandroideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales, according to the APG III system of 2009.

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Massonia

Massonia is a genus of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Mediterranean Basin

In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin (also known as the Mediterranean region or sometimes Mediterranea) is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Merwilla

Merwilla is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Micrometre

The micrometre (International spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American spelling), also commonly known as a micron, is an SI derived unit of length equaling (SI standard prefix "micro-".

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Middle Kingdom of Egypt

The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (also known as The Period of Reunification) is the period in the history of ancient Egypt between circa 2050 BC and 1710 BC, stretching from the reunification of Egypt under the impulse of Mentuhotep II of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty.

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Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominately in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

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Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen

Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (3 December 1760, Giessen – 30 November 1806, Darmstadt) was a German naturalist and forester.

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Moth

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera.

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Mucilage

Mucilage is a thick, gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms.

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Muscari

Muscari is a genus of perennial bulbous plants native to Eurasia that produce spikes of dense, most commonly blue, urn-shaped flowers resembling bunches of grapes in the spring.

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Namophila

Namophila is a monotypic genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Nectar

Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.

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Nolinoideae

Nolinoideae is a monocot subfamily of the family Asparagaceae in the APG III system of 2009.

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Ornithogalum

Ornithogalum is a genus of perennial plants mostly native to southern Europe and southern Africa belonging to the family Asparagaceae.

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Ornithogalum pyrenaicum

Ornithogalum pyrenaicum, also called Prussian asparagus, wild asparagus, Bath asparagus, Pyrenees star of Bethlehem, or spiked star of Bethlehem, is a plant whose young flower shoots may be eaten as a vegetable, similar to asparagus.

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Ornithogalum saundersiae

Ornithogalum saundersiae or giant chincherinchee is a species of Ornithogalum (star of Bethlehem) in the Asparagaceae family, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Ornithogalum thyrsoides

Ornithogalum thyrsoides is a bulbous plant species that is endemic to the Cape Province in South Africa.

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Ovary (botany)

In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium.

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Oziroe

Oziroe is a genus of bulbous South American plants in the squill subfamily within the asparagus family.

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Papyrus

Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.

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Peduncle (botany)

In botany, a peduncle is a stem supporting an inflorescence, or after fecundation, an infructescence.

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Perianth

The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals).

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Petal

Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.

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Plant reproduction

Reproduction means producing offspring for the survival of the species.

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Pollen

Pollen is a fine to coarse powdery substance comprising pollen grains which are male microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce male gametes (sperm cells).

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Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, enabling later fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind.

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Prospero (plant)

Prospero is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Pseudogaltonia

Pseudogaltonia is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Pseudomuscari

Pseudomuscari is a genus of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Pseudoprospero

Pseudoprospero is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Puschkinia

Puschkinia is a genus of three known species of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Resnova

Resnova is a genus of bulbous perennials in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, tribe Hyacintheae, subtribe Massoniinae, and found in South Africa.

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Rosette (botany)

In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves.

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (brand name Kew) is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Saponin

Saponins are a class of chemical compounds found in particular abundance in various plant species.

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Scape (botany)

In botany, a scape is a long internode forming the basal part or the whole of a peduncle.

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Schizocarphus

Schizocarphus is a monotypic genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Scilla

Scilla (Squill) is a genus of about 50 to 80 bulb-forming perennial herbs in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae, native to woodlands, subalpine meadows, and seashores throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle-East.

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Scilla bifolia

Scilla bifolia (alpine squill or two-leaf squill) is a herbaceous perennial growing from an underground bulb,Pignatti S. - Flora d'Italia - Edagricole – 1982 Vol.

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Scilliroside

Scilliroside is a toxic compound derived from the plant Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima), which is sometimes used as a rodenticide.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Sensu

Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of".

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spetaea

Spetaea is a monotypic genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Stamen

The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Stephan Endlicher

Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804, Pressburg (Bratislava) – 28 March 1849, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.

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Subfamily

In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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Tepal

A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth) when these parts cannot easily be divided into two kinds, sepals and petals.

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Tropics

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Type genus

In biological classification, especially zoology, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.

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Vegetative reproduction

Vegetative reproduction (also known as vegetative propagation, vegetative multiplication or vegetative cloning) is any form of asexual reproduction occurring in plants in which a new plant grows from a fragment of the parent plant or grows from a specialized reproductive structure.

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Veltheimia

Veltheimia is a genus of perennial plants native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Wasp

A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant.

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World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (usually abbreviated to WCSP) is an "international collaborative programme that provides the latest peer reviewed and published opinions on the accepted scientific names and synonyms of selected plant families." Maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, it is available online, allowing searches for the names of families, genera and species, as well as the ability to create checklists.

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Zagrosia

Zagrosia is a monotypic genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).

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Hyacinthaceae, Hyacintheaceae, Ornithogaleae, Ornithogaloideae, Scilleae.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilloideae

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