Hyacinthaceae

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Hyacinthaceae

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Lilliopsida
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Hyacinthaceae Batsch ex Borkh. (1797)

Genera

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

[edit] References

Martin Pfosser and Franz Speta. 1999. Phylogenetics of Hyacinthaceae Based on Plastid DNA Sequences. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86: 852-875 (abstract).