Burmanniaceae
Encyclopedia
Burmanniaceae is a botanical name
of a family of flowering plants, consisting of about a hundred species of herbaceous
plants in roughly a dozen genera. Often they are quite remarkable plants, more often red than green, without much leaf area and not growing very big in any way.
The APG II system
, of 2003, places the family in the order Dioscoreales
, in the clade monocots. The circumscription of the family in APG II is wider than in the APG system
, of 1998, and includes the plants that belonged to the family Thismiaceae
in APG.
Botanical name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants...
of a family of flowering plants, consisting of about a hundred species of herbaceous
Herbaceous
A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...
plants in roughly a dozen genera. Often they are quite remarkable plants, more often red than green, without much leaf area and not growing very big in any way.
The APG II system
APG II system
The APG II system of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was a revision of the first APG system, published in 1998, and was superseded in 2009...
, of 2003, places the family in the order Dioscoreales
Dioscoreales
Dioscoreales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Dioscoreaceae.In the APG II system, of 2003, this order was placed in the clade monocots and comprised the families Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae and Nartheciaceae.Under the APG system of 1998,...
, in the clade monocots. The circumscription of the family in APG II is wider than in the APG system
APG system
The APG system of plant classification is the first, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was superseded in 2003 by a revision, the APG II system, and then in 2009 by a further...
, of 1998, and includes the plants that belonged to the family Thismiaceae
Thismiaceae
Thismiaceae is a family of flowering plants recognized by several authors Thismiaceae is a family of flowering plants recognized by several authors Thismiaceae is a family of flowering plants recognized by several authors (like J. Hutchinson, Chase et al. 1995 , 2000 ; Angiosperm Phylogeny Group...
in APG.
External links
- Burmanniaceae, Thismiaceae 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
- Monocot families (USDA)
- Burmanniaceae in the Flora of North America
- Burmanniaceae.org, a site dedicated to the research on this family
- the specialists at work
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links and more links at CSDL, Texas