Aphyllanthaceae
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Aphyllanthoideae is a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family
Asparagaceae
, order
Asparagales
. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Aphyllanthaceae. The subfamily (and family) names are derived from the generic name
of the type
genus
, Aphyllanthes, endemic to the western Mediterranean region.
The subfamily consists of only one species, Aphyllanthes monspeliensis.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.In earlier classification systems, the species involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae...
, order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
Asparagales
Asparagales
Asparagales is the name of an order of plants, used in modern classification systems such as the APG III system . The order takes its name from the family Asparagaceae and is placed in the monocots. The order has only recently been recognized in classification systems...
. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Aphyllanthaceae. The subfamily (and family) names are derived from the generic name
Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages...
of the type
Biological type
In biology, a type is one particular specimen of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
, Aphyllanthes, endemic to the western Mediterranean region.
The subfamily consists of only one species, Aphyllanthes monspeliensis.
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