Asteliaceae

Asteliaceae
	Astelia hemichrysa ; is an endemic type of island Reunion .
Systematics
Department :	Vascular plants (tracheophyta)
Subdivision :	Seed plants (Spermatophytina)
Class :	Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida)
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asteliaceae
Scientific name
	Asteliaceae
	Dumort.

Collospermum hastatum (Syn .: Astelia hastata ) from New Zealand

The Asteliaceae are a family in the order of the asparagus-like (Asparagales) within the monocotyledons (monocotyledons).

distribution

The species have their areas from New Zealand to New Guinea , from the Pacific islands to the east to Hawaii , in Chile and on the Mascarene Islands .

description

There are perennial herbaceous plants that develop rhizomes .

The inflorescences are branched with large bracts . The hermaphroditic flowers are radial symmetry and mostly threefold, but individual taxa can have certain flower organs in larger numbers. The bloom cladding sheets are designed the same ( perigone ). A capsule fruit or usually a berry is formed.

Systematics

In the Asteliaceae family there are two to four genera with about 37 species:

Astelia Banks & Sol. ex R. Br. , with around 31 species from the Mascarene Islands, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and Polynesia to Hawaii, Chile and New Caledonia
Collospermum Skottsb. , with five species in New Zealand, Fiji Islands, and Samoa. According to R. Govaerts, the species belong to the genus Astelia .
Milligania Hook. f. , with about five species in Tasmania
Neoastelia J.B. Williams , with only one species:
- Neoastelia spactabilis J.B. Williams ; it occurs in northeastern New South Wales.

After APWebsite only these four genera of the family, other sources include include the Cordyline ( Cordyline ), which in APWebsite to Laxmanniaceae belong to.

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The asteliaceae family in APWebsite (Engl.)
The family at DELTA. (engl.)
David J. Mabberley: The Plant Book. A portable dictionary of the higher plants. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1987, ISBN 0-521-34060-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Asteliaceae. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved July 22, 2018.

Web links

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[WCSP-1] Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Asteliaceae. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved July 22, 2018.