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Asparagaceae

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Asparagaceae

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Asparagaceae (), known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, Asparagus officinalis. This family includes both common garden plants as well as common houseplants. The garden plants include asparagus, yucca, bluebell, lily of the valley, and hosta, and the houseplants include snake plant, corn cane, spider plant, and plumosus fern.

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Asparagaceae is a family within the kingdom Plantae. It belongs to the phylum Tracheophyta and the order Asparagales. The family is classified under the class Liliopsida in some records, while other sources list it under Magnoliopsida. The taxon is considered accepted.

Records for Asparagaceae are held by various institutions, including ECOSUR, STDOM, FC-UNAM, INECOL, and UACH. Occurrences have been documented in Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. The family has 5,388,867 occurrence records, 3,574 PubMed entries, and 342 iDigBio records.

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Species

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Asparagaceae

FAMILY

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyAsparagaceae
Observations recorded5,388,867

天门冬科（學名：Asparagaceae）是單子葉植物天門冬目的一科。傳統上本科的植物常被分在百合科中，現代的植物分類學者多根据《被子植物APG分类法》（1998年）、《被子植物APG II分类法 (修订版)》（2003年）、《被子植物APG III分类法》（2009年）採用1789年 安托万·罗兰·德朱西厄所發表的學名。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
342
With media
264
Family
Asparagaceae
Collections
ECOSUR, STDOM, FC-UNAM, INECOL, UACH, CICY
Recorded in
Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Zimbabwe, Zambia, United States, Panama, Spain
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Research

3,574 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Early taxonomy
  • Asparagaceae under the APG II system
  • Asparagaceae under the APG III system
  • Genera
  • Obsolete genera or species formerly included in the Asparagaceae
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

Asparagaceae (), known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, Asparagus officinalis. This family includes both common garden plants as well as common houseplants. The garden plants include asparagus, yucca, bluebell, lily of the valley, and hosta, and the houseplants include snake plant, corn cane, spider plant, and plumosus fern.

The Asparagaceae is a morphologically heterogenous family with the included species varying widely in their appearance and growth form. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, with genera and species contained in the family native to all continents except Antarctica.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asparagaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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