asparagoid lilies
asparagales latin

All these families are in the order Asparagales.

No single morphological character appears to be diagnostic of the order Asparagales.

Tecophilaeaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asparagales.

Several studies have attempted to date the evolution of the Asparagales, based on phylogenetic evidence.

The order Asparagales has only recently been recognized in classification systems, with the advent of phylogenetics.

One of the 29 families into which the Asparagales were divided was the Hyacinthaceae.

The family is in the monocot order Asparagales.

It may also be treated as a separate family Hyacinthaceae within the Asparagales.

Because most orchids have very thin seed coats, the Asparagales seemed unlikely to be close relatives.

Within the monocots, Asparagales is the sister of the commelinid clade.

A possible phylogenetic tree for the Asparagales, including those families recently reduced to subfamilies, is shown below.

It places this in the order Asparagales, in the clade monocots.

They are part of order Asparagales.

One curious aspect of the Asparagales is that their seeds are encased by a distinctive black, crusty coat.

It is confined to Asparagales among the monocots and is believed to have evolved independently in most families.

Several studies suggest (with high bootstrap support) that Orchidaceae is the sister of the rest of the Asparagales.

Asparagales have a method of secondary thickening which is otherwise only found inDioscorea (in the order Disoscoreales).

Two other systems which use the order Asparagales are the Dahlgren system and the Kubitzki system.

Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, perennial and bulbous flowering plants included in the monocot order Asparagales.

Asphodelus ramosus, also known as Branched asphodel, is a perennial herb in the Asparagales order.

Phytomelan is found in most families of the Asparagales (although not in Orchidaceae, thought to be a sister to the rest of the group).

Microsporogenesis (part of pollen formation) distinguishes some members of Asparagales from Liliales.

It seems that when the Asparagales first diverged they developed simultaneous microsporogenesis, which the 'lower' Asparagale families retain.

The widely used Cronquist system of 1968-1988 also did not recognise Asparagales, using instead the very broadly defined order Liliales.

The Amaryllidoideae has so far defied precise understanding of its internal phylogeny, and its relationships to other higher Asparagales.