Hyacinthaceae

Taxobox
name = Hyacinthaceae


image_width = 230px
image_caption = Hyacinth
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Hyacinthaceae
familia_authority = Batsch ex Borkh. (1797)
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Hyacinthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The plants are herbaceous perennials that grow from bulbs, and include several popular spring-blooming garden plants, including Hyacinth ("Hyacinthus"), grape hyacinth ("Muscari"), bluebell ("Hyacinthoides") and squill ("Scilla").

As circumscribed by Pfosser & Speta (1999) the family contains about 70 genera and 1000 species. The genera have been included in Liliaceae in many classification systems, such as the Cronquist system. The Dahlgren system recognized Hyacinthaceae. The APG II system prefers the inclusion of Hyacinthaceae in Asparagaceae but allows for its optional segregation from that family, placing them together in the order Asparagales, in the clade monocots.

Current research in molecular systematics is leading to further revision and some genera that were formerly placed within the family, e.g., "Chlorogalum" and "Camassia", are now placed in other families within the order Asparagales.

;Genera (according to Watson and Dallwitz, 1992 onwards):

* "Albuca"
* "Alrawia"
* "Amphisiphon"
* "Androsiphon"
* "Barnardia"
* "Battandiera"
* "Bellevalia"
* "Brimeura"
* "Bowiea"
* "Camassia"
* "Chionodoxa"
* "Chlorogalum"
* "Daubenya"
* "Dipcadi"
* "Drimia"
* "Drimiopsis"
* "Eucomis"
* "Fortunatia"
* "Galtonia"
* "Hyacinthella"
* "Hyacinthoides" (syn. "Endymion")
* "Hyacinthus"
* "Lachenalia"
* "Ledebouria"
* "Leopoldia"
* "Litanthus"
* "Massonia"
* "Muscari"
* "Muscarimia"
* "Neobakeria"
* "Neopatersonia"
* "Ornithogalum"
* "Periboea"
* "Polyxena"
* "Pseudogaltonia"
* "Puschkinia"
* "Resnova"
* "Rhadamanthus"
* "Rhodocodon"
* "Schizobasis"
* "Schizocarphus"
* "Schoenolirion"
* "Scilla"
* "Tenicroa"
* "Thuranthos"
* "Urginea"
* "Veltheimia"
* "Whiteheadia"

References

Martin Pfosser and Franz Speta. 1999. Phylogenetics of Hyacinthaceae Based on Plastid DNA Sequences. "Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden" 86: 852-875 ( [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-6493(199923)86%3A4%3C852%3APOHBOP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L#abstract abstract] ).

External links

* [http://www.topwalks.net/plants/generos/hyacinthaceae.htm Hyacinthaceae in Topwalks]
* [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/orders/asparagalesweb.htm#Hyacintheaceae Hyacinthaceae] in Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb Angiosperm Phylogeny Website] . Version 7, May 2006.
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/hyacinth.htm Hyacinthaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). " [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ The families of flowering plants] : descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval." Version: 9th March 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1200&taxon_id=10419 "Monocot families" (USDA)]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=44985&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
* [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Hyacinthaceae links at CSDL, Texas]