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BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
Liliidae
is also a member of:
Herbaceous Plants
(via Liliidae)
Macrophytes
(via Spermatophyta)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

LILIIDAE (monocotyledonous flowering plants)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Order ALISMATALES (pond plants) 33        
Family ACORACEAE (sweet flags) 2 1     2
Family ALISMATACEAE (water-plantains) 4 27 1   7
Family APONOGETONACEAE (Cape pondweeds) 1 10      
Family ARACEAE (lords-and-ladies) 4 57   23 5
Family BUTOMACEAE (flowering rushes) 1 7     3
Family HYDROCHARITACEAE (waterweeds) 6 27     9
Family JUNCAGINACEAE (arrowgrasses) 2 12 11   2
Family LEMNACEAE (duckweeds) 6 28 15   7
Family POTAMOGETONACEAE (pondweeds) 5 16 16 4 8
Family RUPPIACEAE (tasselweeds) 1       4
Family ZOSTERACEAE (eelgrasses) 1 21 2   2
Order ARECALES (palms) 2        
Family ARECACEAE (palms) 2 8     1
Order ASPARAGALES (orchids, onions & irises) 98        
Family AMARYLLIDACEAE (daffodils and onions) 22 159 96 7 11
Family ASPARAGACEAE (hyacinths) 15 129 18 6 8
Family IRIDACEAE (corms) 9 74 2   4
Family ORCHIDACEAE (orchids) 50 618 36   54
Family XANTHORRHOEACEAE (asphodels, red-hot-pokers & New Zealnd flaxes) 2 13     1
Order COMMELINALES (spiderworts & pickerel weeds) 1        
Family PONTEDERIACEAE (pickerelweeds) 1       1
Order DIOSCOREALES (bog asphodels & black bryonies) 3 14      
Order LILIALES (lilies) 6        
Family COLCHICACEAE (colchicums) 1 14      
Family LILIACEAE (lilies) 4 50     5
Family MELANTHIACEAE (herb parises) 1 6      
Order POALES (grasses, sedges & rushes) 165 828 704 12 127
Order ZINGIBERALES (gingers) 1        
Family ZINGIBERACEAE (gingers) 1 6      

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Sell, P. & Murrell, G., 1996 (Butomaceae to Orchidaceae) Flora of Great Britain and Ireland 5: Liliidae

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 63 general literature references to LILIIDAE (monocotyledonous flowering plants)

LILIIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 PLANTAE
(plants)		 SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)		 MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 6135 feeding and other relationships of LILIIDAE (monocotyledonous flowering plants)

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