Everything about Agapanthaceae totally explained
Agapanthaceae is the
botanical name of a family of
flowering plants. The sole included genus, and the one from which the family takes its name, is
Agapanthus. This genus has been variously included in
Amaryllidaceae (for example, Fay & Chase 1996),
Alliaceae (for example, the
Dahlgren system and
APG II system), or
Liliaceae (for example, in the
Cronquist system, which unlike most classification systems included both Alliaceae and Amaryllidaceae in a broadly defined Liliaceae).
Agapanthus shares characters with genera included in both Alliaceae and Amaryllidaceae, but lacks the compounds that give alliaceous plants their characteristic onion or garlic odor, and has superior ovaries, unlike the usually inferior ovaries of Amaryllidaceae.
Fay & Chase (1996) recommend the recognition of
Agapanthus as a subfamily, Agapanthoideae, in Amaryllidaceae. The
APG II system (2003) prefers the inclusion of both Amaryllidaceae and Agapanthaceae in
Alliaceae but allows for the optional separation of the three families, placing them in the order
Asparagales, in the
monocots clade.
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