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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Hyacinthaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Hyacinthaceae

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Amaryllidales Bromhead pub. 1840       Familia  Hyacinthaceae Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 48. 1786.

Named members of the Family Hyacinthaceae

1	Genus  Albuca L.
2	Genus  Alrawia (Wendelbo) K.M.Perss. & Wendelbo
3	Genus  Amphisiphon W.F.Barker
4	Genus  Androsiphon Schltr.
5	Genus  Battandiera Maire syn. Ornithogalum L.
6	Genus  Bellevalia Lapeyr.
7	Genus  Botryanthus Kunth syn. Muscari Mill.
8	Genus  Brachyscypha Baker syn. Lachenalia J.Jacq. ex Murray
9	Genus  Brimeura Salisb.
10	Genus  Camassia Lindl. common name: camas
11	Genus  Chionodoxa Boiss. common name: chionodoxa
12	Genus  Chionoscilla J.Allen ex G.Nicholson
13	Tribus  Chlorogaleae Baker pub. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 13: 215. 4 Dec 1872.
	14    Subtribus  Chlorogalinae Benth. & Hook.f. pub. Gen. Pl. 3: 750, 754. 14 Apr 1883.      15    Genus  Chlorogalum pub. (Lindl.) Kunth (1843) common name: soapplant
16	Genus  Daubenya Lindl.
17	Genus  Dipcadi Medik.
18	Genus  Drimia Jacq. ex Willd.
19	Genus  Drimiopsis Lindl. & Paxton
20	Genus  Elsiea F.M.Leight. syn. Ornithogalum L.
21	Genus  Endymion Dumort. syn. Hyacinthoides Heist. ex Fabr.
22	Genus  Eucomis L'H�r. pub. (1789)
23	Genus  Fortunatia J.F.Macbr.
24	Genus  Galtonia Decne.
25	Genus  Hastingsia S.Watson common name: rushlily
26	Genus  Hyacinthella Schur
27	Subfamilia  Hyacinthoideae Link pub. Handbuch 1: 160. Jan-Aug 1829.
	28    Tribus  Hyacintheae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 141. 1827.      29    Subtribus  Hyacinthinae Parl. pub. Fl. Ital. 2: 433. 1852.      30    Genus  Hyacinthus L. pub. (1753) common name: hyacinth
31	Genus  Hyacinthoides Heist. ex Fabr. common name: hyacinthoides
32	Genus  Lachenalia J. Jacq. ex Murray pub. (1784) common name: Cape cowslip
33	Genus  Ledebouria Roth
34	Genus  Leopoldia Parl.
35	Genus  Litanthus Harv.
36	Tribus  Massonieae Baker pub. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 11: 355. 17 Sep 1870.
	37    Subtribus  Massoniinae Benth. & Hook.f. pub. Gen. Pl. 3: 750, 758. 14 Apr 1883.   38    Genus  Massonia Thunb. ex Houtt. pub. (1780)
39	Genus  Muscari Mill. common name: grape hyacinth
40	Genus  Muscarimia Kostel.
41	Genus  Neobakeria Schltr. syn. Massonia Thunb. ex L.f.
42	Genus  Neopatersonia Schonl.
43	Subtribus  Ornithogalinae Caruel pub. Epit. Fl. Europ. 1: 42. Jan 1892.
	44    Genus  Ornithogalum L. pub. (1753) common name: star of Bethlehem
45	Genus  Polyxena Kunth
46	Genus  Pseudogaltonia (Kuntze) Engl.
47	Genus  Pseudomuscari Garbari & Greuter
48	Genus  Puschkinia Adams
49	Genus  Resnova Van der Merwe syn. Drimiopsis Lindl. & Paxton
50	Genus  Rhadamanthus Salisb.
51	Genus  Rhodocodon Baker
52	Genus  Schizobasis Baker
53	Genus  Schizocarphus Van der Merwe syn. Scilla L.
54	Genus  Schoenolirion Torr. ex Durand common name: sunnybell
55	Subfamilia  Scilloideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 168. Mai 1831.
	56    Tribus  Scilleae Bartl. pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 50. Sep 1830.      57    Genus  Scilla L. pub. (1753) common name: scilla
58	Genus  Strangweja Bertol. syn. Bellevalia Lapeyr.
59	Genus  Sypharissa Salisb.
60	Genus  Thuranthos C.H.Wright
61	Genus  Urginea Steinh. common name: liverseed grass
62	Genus  Urgineopsis Compton syn. Urginea Steinh.
63	Genus  Veltheimia Gled.
64	Genus  Whiteheadia Harv.

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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