Key to Tasmanian Dicots
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GENERA AND FAMILIES FORMERLY PLACED IN LILIACEAE: The old family Liliaceae was a highly artificial group and had to be split into a number of families. The new classification is given below. Click below to view brief illustrated descriptions of the Tasmanian families and genera that were once in Liliaceae. Some old names for genera are given in parentheses.

ALLIACEAE

Agapanthus

Allium

Ipheon

Nothoscordum

 

ALSTROEMERIACEAE

Alstroemeria

 

AMARYLLIDACEAE

Leucojum

Narcissus

 

ASPARAGACEAE

Asparagus

ASPHODELACEAE

Asphodelus

Bulbine

Kniphofia

 

ASTELIACEAE

Astelia

Milligania

 

BLANDFORDIACEAE

Blandfordia

 

COLCHICACEAE

Burchardia

Wurmbea

 

CAMPYNEMATACEAE

Campynema

 

HEMEROCALLIDACEAE

Caesia

Dianella

Herpolirion

Thelionema

Tricoryne

 

HYACYNTHACEAE

Muscari

Ornithogalum

Scilla

 

HYPOXIDACEAE

Hypoxis

 

 

LAXMANNIACEAE

Arthropodium

Chamaescilla

(Dichopogon)

Laxmannia

Sowerbaea

Thysanotus

 

LOMANDRACEAE

Lomandra

 

LUZURIAGACEAE

Drymophila

 

XANTHORRHOEACEAE

Xanthorrhoea


 

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