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LILIIDAE (monocotyledonous flowering plants)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs #webs
Family AGAVACEAE (agaves) 2          
Genus Agave (agaves)           2
Genus Yucca (yuccas, Spanish daggers)           2
Family ALISMATACEAE (water-plantains) 3 21 2   3 27
Family ARACEAE (lords-and-ladies) 6          
Species Acorus calamus L. (Sweet-flag)   1     1 3
Species Acorus gramineus Aiton (Slender Sweet-flag)         1  
Genus Arum (arums) 2 42   23   10
Species Calla palustris L. (Bog Arum)           1
Species Lysichiton americanus Hulten & H.St.John (American Skunk-cabbage)   8        
Family ARECACEAE (palms) 1          
Species Phoenix canariensis (Canary Date Palm)   1        
Family BAMBUSACEAE (bamboos) 15 7 6   8 51
Family BUTOMACEAE (flowering rushes) 1 1     2 5
Family CYPERACEAE (cotton-grasses, spike-rushes and sedges) 80 176 261   13 805
Family DIOSCOREACEAE (black bryonies) 1          
Species Tamus communis L. (Black Bryony)   3       4
Family HYDROCHARITACEAE (waterweeds) 4 10     4 10
Family IRIDACEAE (irises) 10 41 2   1 96
Family JUNCACEAE (rushes and wood-rushes) 22 54 151   3 279
Family JUNCAGINACEAE (arrowgrasses) 2 12 2   1 12
Family LEMNACEAE (duckweeds) 4 26 15   1 7
Family LILIACEAE (lilies, onions and bluebells) 66 330 111 13 9 236
Family ORCHIDACEAE (orchids) 49 537 36   28 59
Family POACEAE (grasses - formerly Graminae) 151 293 268   29 2817
Family PONTEDERIACEAE (pickerelweeds) 1          
Species Pontederia cordata L. (Pickerelweed)         1  
Family POTAMOGETONACEAE (pondweeds) 7 12 16 4 4 26
Family RUPPIACEAE (tasselweeds) 1       1 2
Family SPARGANIACEAE (bur-reeds) 4 2     1 37
Family TYPHACEAE (bulrushes) 3 38   12 1 97
Family ZANNICHELLIACEAE (horned pondweeds) 1          
Species Zannichellia palustris L. (Horned Pondweed)         1 2
Family ZOSTERACEAE (eelgrasses) 2          
Genus Zostera (eelgrasses) 2 21 2     2

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

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

LILIIDAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

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

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with LILIIDAE:

Photos (aphid-infested) aphid-infested is associate of larva Platycheirus fulviventris - a hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Rotheray, G.E., 1993 [in wetlands]
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by pycnidium of Hendersonia coelomycetous anamorph Phaeosphaeria vagans - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by pseudothecium Phaeosphaeria vagans - an ascomycete (Pleosporales: Phaeosphaeriaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem stem is foodplant of Notaris bimaculatus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Erirhinidae) UK/Ireland Morris, M.G., 2002 [emergent and semi-aquatic spp]

Liliidae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae
Rotheray, G.E., 1993 Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Britain and Europe

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