Colchicaceae

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Colchicaceae
Colchicum autumnale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Colchicaceae DC.
Genera
See text

Colchicaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only few taxonomists.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots, and regards the family as including some two hundred species of herbaceous perennials with rhizomes or corms.

The Dahlgren system and the Thorne system (1992) also recognized this family, and placed it in order Liliales in superorder Lilianae in subclass Liliidae (monocotyledons) of class Magnoliopsida (angiosperms).

Genera

The following is a list of genera that are sometimes included in this family :

• Androcymbium
• Baeometra
• Bulbocodium
• Burchardia
• Camptorrhiza
• Colchicum
• Disporum
• Gloriosa
• Hexacyrtis
• Iphigenia
• Kuntheria
• Littonia
• Merendera
• Neodregea
• Onixotis
• Ornithoglossum
• Petermannia
• Sandersonia
• Schelhammera
• Tripladenia
• Uvularia
• Wurmbea

References

• Vinnersten, A. & Manning, J. (2007).A new classification of Colchicaceae. Taxon 56(1): 163-169.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Colchicaceae

• Colchicaceae, Uvulariaceae 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
• images at PlantSystematics.org
• links at CSDL, Texas