Brodiaea

Taxobox

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image_caption = "Brodiaea californica" ssp. "leptandra"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Themidaceae
genus = "Brodiaea"
genus_authority = Sm.
type_species = "Brodiaea coronaria" (Salisb.) Engl.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
See text.
synonyms ="Hookera" Salisb.
Sources: ING,cite web
url = http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Brodiaea
title = "Brodiaea"
accessdate = 2008-06-27
date = 1996-02-09
format = HTML
work = Index Nominum Genericorum
publisher = International Association for Plant Taxonomy] UniProtUniProt Taxonomy
name = Genus Brodiaea
id = 51443
accessdate = 2008-06-27] The genus "Brodiaea" (or by its common name cluster-lily)cite journal
last = Pires
first = J. Chris
title = 63. "Brodiaea" Smith
journal = Flora of North America
volume =26
pages =Page 20, 53, 55, 321, 326, 328, 331, 332, 336, 3
publisher = Oxford University Press
location = New York & Oxford
url =http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=104654
accessdate = 2008-06-27 ] belongs to the order Asparagales. "Brodiaea" occurs in the West Coast of the United States, especially northern California.

Taxonomic history

Specimens of "Brodiaea" were first collected by Archibald Menzies, botanist to the Vancouver Expedition, in 1792. Menzies collected the plant from the vicinity of the Strait of Georgia, named "New Georgia" by George Vancouver.

The first published reference to the plant appears in James Edward Smith's 1807 "An introduction to physiological and systematical botany", where Smith used it to argue that the tepals of liliaceous plants are sepals rather than petals: quote|"I cannot conceal a recent discovery which strongly confirms the opinion of my acute and candid friend. Two species of a new genus, found by Mr. Menzies on the West coast of North America, have beautiful liliaceous flowers like an Agapanthus, with six internal petals besides!"cite book | first = James Edward | last = Smith | authorlink = James Edward Smith | year = 1807 | title = | page = ]

The following year, Richard Salisbury published the first "Brodiaea" species in his "Paradisus Londinensis", but placed it in the genus "Hookera" as "Hookera coronaria". Smith disagreed with this placement, and in April 1808 read a formal description of a new genus before the Linnean Society of London, naming the genus in honour of Scottish botanist James Brodie (1744-1824).cite journal | first = James Edward | last = Smith | year = 1811 | title = | journal = | volume = | pages = 1–5] Formal publication did not occur, however, until Smith's presentation went to print in 1811.

Taxonomy

Different current systems place the genus in three different families. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group place it in family Themidaceae. Many other modern authors place it in the family Alliaceae. Both of these families are in the order Asparagales. However, older but still widely used sources such as ITIS place the Triplet lilies in the family Liliaceae, in the order Liliales.ITIS|ID=42803|taxon="Brodiaea coronaria" (Salisb.) Engl.|year=2008|date=27 June] The present article follows the recommendations of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.cite web
url = http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/asparagalesweb.htm#Asparagales
title = ASPARAGALES Bromhead
accessdate = 2008-06-27
author = Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
authorlink = Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
format = HTML
work = [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/welcome.html EXTANT SEED PLANTS] at the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden ]

Brodiaea is also used as a common name to refer to the three genera "Brodiaea", "Dichelostemma", and "Triteleia". The latter two genera were once included as part of the genus "Brodiaea".cite web
url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1721
title = Species Records of "Brodiaea"
accessdate = 2008-06-27
author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network
date = 2007-10-05
format = HTML
work = Taxonomy for Plants
publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland ]

pecies

"Brodiaea" contains the following species.

*"Brodiaea appendiculata" Hoover - appendage clusterlily
*"Brodiaea californica" Lindl. - California clusterlily
**"Brodiaea californica var. californica"
**"Brodiaea californica var. leptandra"
*"Brodiaea coronaria" (Salisb.) Engl. - harvest clusterlily; Californian hyacinth
**"Brodiaea coronaria ssp. coronaria" - harvest clusterlily
**"Brodiaea coronaria ssp. rosea" - harvest clusterlily
*"Brodiaea elegans" Hoover - elegant clusterlily
**"Brodiaea elegans ssp. elegans" - elegant clusterlily
**"Brodiaea elegans ssp. hooveri" - Hoover's cluster-lily
*"Brodiaea filifolia" S. Watson - threadleaf clusterlily
*"Brodiaea howellii" - Howell's bicolor clusterlily
*"Brodiaea insignis" (Jeps.) Niehaus - Kaweah clusterlily
*"Brodiaea jolonensis" Eastw. - chaparral clusterlily
*"Brodiaea kinkiensis" Niehaus - San Clemente Island clusterlily
*"Brodiaea minor" (Benth.) S. Watson - vernalpool clusterlily
*"Brodiaea orcuttii" (Greene) Baker - Orcutt's clusterlily
*"Brodiaea pallida" Hoover - Chinese Camp clusterlily
*"Brodiaea purdyi" Eastw. - Sierran clusterlily
*"Brodiaea stellaris" S. Watson - starflower clusterlily
*"Brodiaea terrestris" Kellogg - dwarf clusterlily
**"Brodiaea terrestris ssp. kernensis" - Kern clusterlily
**"Brodiaea terrestris ssp. terrestris" - dwarf clusterlilySources: GRIN, NRCSNRCS Plants Profile
name = Brodiaea
symbol = BRODI
accessdate = 2008-06-27]

References

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Brodiaea Jepson treatment]