Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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GENERA AND FAMILIES FORMERLY PLACED IN LILIACEAE: The old family Liliaceae was a highly artificial group and had to be split into a number of families. The new classification is given below. Click below to view brief illustrated descriptions of the Tasmanian families and genera that were once in Liliaceae. Some old names for families are given in parentheses.

(ALLIACEAE)


ALSTROEMERIACEAE

Alstroemeria

Drymophila


AMARYLLIDACEAE

Agapanthus

Allium

Amaryllis

Ipheion

Leucojum

Narcissus

Nothoscordum

 

ASPARAGACEAE

Arthropodium

Asparagus

Chamaescilla

Cordyline

Laxmannia

Lomandra

Muscari

Ornithogalum

Scilla

Sowerbaea

Thysanotus

ASPHODELACEAE

Aloe

Asphodelus

Bulbine

Caesia

Dianella

Kniphofia

Herpolirion
Phormium

Thelionema

Tricoryne

Xanthorrhoea


ASTELIACEAE

Astelia

Milligania


BLANDFORDIACEAE

Blandfordia


CAMPYNEMATACEAE

Campynema

COLCHICACEAE

Burchardia

Wurmbea


HAEMODORACEAE

Anigozanthos

Haemodorum


HYPOXIDACEAE

Hypoxis

Pauridia


(LAXMANNIACEAE)

(LOMANDRACEAE)


(XANTHORRHOEACEAE)



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