Asteliaceae

Asteliaceae
Astelia hemichrysa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Asteliaceae Dumort.
Genera
See article

Asteliaceae 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 includes a few genera with several dozen species, occurring in the Southern Hemisphere.

Genera

According to the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families as of May 2011^[update], the family contains the following genera:^[2]

• Astelia Banks & Sol. ex R.Br.
• Collospermum Skottsb.
• Milligania Hook.f.
• Neoastelia J.B.Williams

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 
2. ^ WCSP (2011), World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/, retrieved 2011-05-24 , search for "Asteliaceae"

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Asteliaceae

• Asteliaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 9 March 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
• NCBI Taxonomy Browser
• links at CSDL, Texas