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Amaryllidaceae
English: Narcissenfamilie.
Names: Greec amarysso = shine, twinkle.
Including: Alliaceae, Agapanthaceae.
Content: lycorine alkaloids; crinine alkaloids; galanthamine alkaloids; montanine alkaloids; tazette alkaloids; haemanthamine.
DD: Sulphur; Solanaceae.
Culture: movie Fatal attraction; Circe bewitching men in swines.
Taxonomy
The classification of Liliales has been problematic in history. A good example of this problem is the way Alliaceae have been treated in the past, as is described under Aliiaceae.
Amaryllidaceae, Alliaceae and Agapanthaceae have been shown to be close relatives and are treated as one monophyletic family in the Apg3 classification: Amaryllidaceae.
In the first version of the Plant theory Amaryllidaceae was placed in Subphase 6 of the Asparagales in Phase 5.
In the second version of the Plant theory Asparagles is included in Liliales in Phase6. Amaryllidaceae is placed in Subphase 2 of the Liliales.
Botany
Higher asparagoids; successive microsporogenesis; mostly alkaloids; inflorescence in umbels enclosed by two, sometimes fused, subtending bracts!!.
Plants terrestrial, rarely aquatic herbs or succulent geophytes, occasionally epiphytes; perennial; grow from bulbs,some from rhizomes; leaves simple, fleshy, two-ranked, parallel veins, linear, strap like, oblong, elliptic, lanceolate or filiform, sessile or petiolate, witrh meristem; flowers hermaphroditic, bisexual, actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic, pedicellate or sessile, arranged in umbels at the apex of leafless stems, or scapes, with a filiform bract; perianth of six undifferentiated tepals arranged in two whorls, similar in shape and size, free or fused at the base; ovary inferior, Agapanthoideae and Allioideae superior; stamens 6 in two whorls; fruit dry, capsule-shaped, or fleshy and berry-like. Allioideae produce allyl sulfide.
Genera: 75; ± 1600 species.
Subfamilies Tribes and Genera
Subfamily Agapanthoideae, Agapanthaceae: Agapanthus
Subfamily Allioideae
Tribe Allieae: Allium.
Tribe Gilliesieae: Gillesia, Leucocoryne, Miersia, Nothoscordum, Solaria, Speea, Trichlora, Tristagma, Zoellnerallium
Tribe Tulbaghieae: Tulbaghia
Subfamily Amaryllidaceae: Acis, Agapanthus, Allium, Amaryllis, Ammocharis, Apodolirion, Boophane, Boophone, Brunsvigia, Calicharis, Caliphruria, Calostemma, Castellanoa, Cearanthes, Chlidanthus, Clinanthus, Clivia, Crinum, Crossyne, Cryptostephanus, Cyrtanthus, Diphalangium, Eithea, Eucrosia, Eustephia, Galanthus, Gemmaria, Gethyllis, Gilliesia, Griffinia, Habranthus, Haemanthus, Hannonia, Hieronymiella, Hippeastrum, Hymenocallis, Ismene, Jaimehintonia, Leptochiton, Leucocoryne, Leucojum, Lycoris, Mathieua, Miersia, Myobranthus, Namaquanula, Narcissus, Nerine, Nothoscordum, Pamianthe, Pancratium, Paramongaia, Phaedranassa, Phycella, Placea, Plagiolirion, Proiphys, Prototulbaghia, Pyrolirion, Rauhia, Rhodophiala, Scadoxus, Solaria, Speea, Sprekelia, Stenomesson, Sternbergia, Strumaria, Tocantinia, Traubia, Trichlora, Tristagma, Tulbaghia, Ungernia, Urceocharis, Urceolina, Vagaria, Worsleya, Zephyranthes.