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Hyacinthaceae
Hyacinth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Lilliopsida Order: Asparagales Family: Hyacinthaceae Batsch ex Borkh. (1797)
Genera
See text.

Hyacinthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The plants are herbaceous perennials that grow from bulbs, and include several popular spring-blooming garden plants, including Hyacinth (Hyacinthus), grape hyacinth (Muscari), bluebell (Hyacinthoides) and squill (Scilla).

As circumscribed by Pfosser & Speta (1999) the family contains about 70 genera and 1000 species. The genera have been included in Liliaceae in many classification systems, such as the Cronquist system. The Dahlgren system recognized Hyacinthaceae. The APG II system prefers the inclusion of Hyacinthaceae in Asparagaceae but allows for its optional segregation from that family, placing them together in the order Asparagales, in the clade monocots.

Current research in molecular systematics is leading to further revision and some genera that were formerly placed within the family, e.g., Chlorogalum and Camassia, are now placed in other families within the order Asparagales.

Genera (according to Watson and Dallwitz, 1992 onwards)

• Albuca
• Alrawia
• Amphisiphon
• Androsiphon
• Barnardia
• Battandiera
• Bellevalia
• Brimeura
• Bowiea
• Camassia
• Chionodoxa
• Chlorogalum
• Daubenya
• Dipcadi
• Drimia
• Drimiopsis
• Eucomis
• Fortunatia
• Galtonia
• Hyacinthella
• Hyacinthoides (syn. Endymion)
• Hyacinthus
• Lachenalia
• Ledebouria
• Leopoldia
• Litanthus
• Massonia
• Muscari
• Muscarimia
• Neobakeria
• Neopatersonia
• Ornithogalum
• Periboea
• Polyxena
• Pseudogaltonia
• Puschkinia
• Resnova
• Rhadamanthus
• Rhodocodon
• Schizobasis
• Schizocarphus
• Schoenolirion
• Scilla
• Tenicroa
• Thuranthos
• Urginea
• Veltheimia
• Whiteheadia

Martin Pfosser and Franz Speta. 1999. Phylogenetics of Hyacinthaceae Based on Plastid DNA Sequences. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86: 852-875 (abstract).

• Hyacinthaceae in Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 7, May 2006.
• Hyacinthaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 9th March 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
• Monocot families (USDA)
• NCBI Taxonomy Browser
• links at CSDL, Texas

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