Doryanthaceae

Doryanthaceae
Temporal range: 82 Ma
↓
late Cretaceous - Recent
Doryanthes excelsa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Doryanthaceae
R.Dahlgren & Clifford
genera

see text
Distribution

Doryanthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.[1] The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG III system of 2009 (unchanged from the 1998 and 2003 versions) does recognize this family. The family then includes only a single genus (Doryanthes) of few species of large plants in Eastern Australia.

Notes and references

  1. ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x 

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